Category: Professional Notes

The recipient of this year’s VATA Clinical and Emerging Practice Award is Robert Liebau. Bob has been at the University of Mary Washington for the past 25 years. He served as the first head athletic trainer at UMW from 1986 to 2003. Currently serving as the Associate Director of Campus Recreation and the Director of the Fitness Center at UMW, Bob founded the university’s wellness program and has expanded his sports medicine outreach to the university students, staff and club sports. He is also involved in a variety of projects providing wellness information to both the university and local community.

Recently, Bob has developed a unique program at UMW working with club sport athletes and concussion management. Throughout the years, he has been actively involved with the VATA and has served as a presenter on numerous occasions.

Ian Rogol, head athletic trainer, has been named the 2012 Virginia Athletic Trainers Association’s College/University Athletic Trainer of the Year.

A native of Charlottesville, Rogol began his career in athletic training after graduating in 1994 from James Madison University. He went on to receive his master of education degree in athletic training/sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1996. During his many years of experience, Ian has served as an athletic trainer at many high schools in the Central Virginia area. He is serving his second year as the head athletic trainer at the University of Mary Washington.

In the past year at UMW, Rogol transformed the athletic training and sports medicine department into a well run and exceptional program, changing the culture in the athletic training room. He has gained the trust and support of the staff, coaches, and most importantly the athletes at Mary Washington. Not only has Ian worked on developing relationships with the athletes, he has also developed a strong relationship with the student health services at UMW, local orthopedic medical practices, and other health care professionals. Ian has been key in implementing protocols for concussion management and catastrophic injuries. He also serves as an ACI for the George Mason University athletic training program.

The Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association is dedicated to the health and well-being of Virginians who are physically active. As such, the organization focuses on enhancing the professional development of Virginia’s certified athletic trainers and on communication between all persons and agencies invested in the health and well-being of athletes and the physically active.

Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, has published a letter to the editors, Are Financial Jobs Morally Unjustifiable?, in the journal Mathematical Intelligencer.

Martha Burtis, special projects coordinator in the division of teaching and learning technologies, delivered an invited presentation to faculty at Longwood University on Friday, January 6 titled {Re}Visioning Blogging. The talk served as an introduction to faculty new to blogging and provided examples of advanced uses of blogs for those more experienced with the approach.

The presentation was part of Longwood’s first ever “Blogapalooza” event, hosted by Greenwood Library. Burtis’ slides, which include links to many UMW course and project sites in UMW Blogs can be found at http://slidesha.re/longwoodblogging.

William Crawley, director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, and Charles J. Shields, associate director, will be featured on AM 1230 WFVA. The interview, which will air Sunday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m., will focus on the upcoming season of the lecture series.

Shields talks about his book, And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life, in a segment on the syndicated Colorado public radio program, Page by Page. The segment originally aired on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and is available online at http://www.aspenpublicradio.org/pod_listen.php?row=2126.

He also shares the book in an interview on AARP Prime Time Radio, taped on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

In addition, Shields discusses the life of Harper Lee in a video on the Biography Channel website.