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Columns::January 28, 2002

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Poet holds reading on campus
Maggie Anderson, whose poetry has drawn the praise of Pulitzer Prize-winners Gwendolyn Brooks and Yusef Komunyakaa, will read from her work Feb. 1 at noon on the second floor of Demosthenian Hall. An informal question-and-answer session with the poet will follow, from1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the first-floor parlor. Open to the public free of charge, these events are sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a consortium of colleges and universities that every year brings in three nationally known writers to tour the state.
Anderson’s fourth--and most recent--book, Windfall: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2000.
Anderson is professor of English and creative writing at Kent State University, where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series in conjunction with the Kent State University Press.
Anderson’s poems have earned awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony.
The Georgia Poetry Circuit is funded by its member schools and by the Georgia Arts Council. UGA sponsorship for the Circuit is coordinated by the Georgia Review, with assistance from the UGA libraries. The first reader on the 2001-2002 tour was Alice Friman; the third, R.T. Smith, will visit Athens on April 4.

Social work professor receives grant
Stacey Kolomer, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has received a two-year, $60,000 grant from the Geriatric Enrichment in Social Work Education Program to infuse more geriatric curriculum into B.S.W. and M.S.W. coursework. The grant is provided through the Council on Social Work Education and the University of Washington, with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation and its Geriatric Social Work Initiative.
“It is a wonderful opportunity for the School of Social Work to encourage students to expand their knowledge about older adults and to stimulate their desire to work with this population,” says Kolomer, the project’s director. Nancy Kropf, associate professor in the School of Social Work, will serve as faculty consultant.
Kolomer intends to survey students with regard to what they are currently learning in the classroom about older adults; to run focus groups with faculty, students, agency providers, field persons, and older adults in the community to determine the kinds of knowledge that students need to work with this population; and to develop Web-based modules, providing lesson plans online that can be used in required courses.

Poll: Georgians hesitant about air travel
Georgians are confident that the new aviation security legislation will improve airport security, but one in four say the legislation means they are even less likely to travel by air, according to the latest Peach State Poll, a quarterly public opinion survey conducted by the university’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
Eighty-four percent of Georgians say they approve of the federal aviation security bill passed last November, and those who are most familiar with the legislation were more likely to support it strongly. Additionally, 76 percent of Georgians are either very confident (21 percent) or somewhat confident (55 percent) that the legislation will actually improve airport security.
Despite high confidence in the legislation, however, only 14 percent of Georgians say that they are now more likely to travel by air; one in four Georgia residents (25 percent) say they are less likely to travel by air as a result of the legislation.
Confidence in security of the airports is not the only factor driving reticence to fly again. A majority of Georgians admits to being bothered by the probability that the new security measures will add to airport delays.

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