Despite the rain and a queue that stretched from Kronvalda bulvāris, across the city canal, all the way down to Muitas iela, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Anatomy Museum attracted 1,397 visitors on Museum Night on 14 May.
This year, the museum invited visitors to look into different inner worlds, both physical and dream worlds, to encourage openness and tolerance. Visitors had the opportunity to view the museum's anatomical, anthropological, and teratological collections free of charge.
Collaboration in biomaterials research, new residency specialisations in oral pathology and in academic performance monitoring systems in surgery, anaesthesiology, gynaecology, and other specialties are just some of the future cooperation directions established between Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and the University at Buffalo (UB) in New York. RSU representatives recently visited New York to discuss deepening these collaborations, which is seen as the next step in the work already underway between the two universities.
The RSU Asian Society (ASOC) will be organising an Asian Night Market on 3 June in Inspiration Park behind the RSU Main Building. At the market, you will be able to enjoy authentic foods from countries like Taiwan, Japan, India, and Sri Lanka and play different street games.
On Sunday, 15 May, a team of runners from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) with both students and staff members participated in the Rimi Riga Marathon. They represented the University in all races – the full marathon, the half-marathon, as well as the 10km and 6km races.
In the dark of night on 11 May, a coordinated landing of a C-146A Wolfhound aircraft took place on road A9 in Dobele municipality. This was a tactical phase of the US Special Operations Forces (SOF) exercise Trojan Footprint 22.
Participants from several NATO member countries practiced their medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) skills together with SOF and ground forces.
Adam Bott is currently in his 7th semester of medical studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). He was born in Russia, but grew up in Germany and is the Head of Integration and Sports on the RSU International Student Association (ISA) Board.
In five years, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Alumni Association has grown from having 100 members to being the largest association of its kind in Latvia, comprising more than 1,100 alumni who are united by their diplomas from RSU, or as it was previously known the Medical Academy of Latvia, and the Riga Medical Institute.
‘If in the past joining the association made you an exception, we now want the reverse to be true,’
On Wednesday, 11 May, representatives of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) management, researchers, and students visited the future RSU Pharmaceutical Education and Research Centre at 21 Konsula iela, next to the RSU Main Building. The group surveyed at how the construction was progressing and were shown around the premises by specialists who explained the floor plans and presented the timeframe for the works.
The new building is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is expected to be ready in autumn.
Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is proud not only of its excellent reputation, but also of its purposeful move towards creating a student-centred university. For several years now, Student Services has been gradually optimising, digitising, and modernising its internal e-systems, processes, and regulatory documents in order to reduce bureaucracy and make the circulation of documents and other processes as fast, convenient, and comprehensible as possible.
It was Lāsma Sirmule who thought of organising Latvian language courses for Ukrainian refugees and to use proven Latvian language curricula. She is a lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) and knows the curricula well because she uses it in her daily work.
According to Dace Žibala, Head of the RSU Language Centre, the invitation to apply for the classes was posted on social networks about a month and a half ago, when the first refugees from Ukraine were arriving in Latvia. The response was unexpectedly high already in the first few hours.
