Now, at the height of summer, the reconstruction of the Rīga Stradiņš University’s (RSU) Anatomy Museum is finally in its home stretch – the museum is being furnished and work on setting up the exhibition has begun. This comprehensive project will conclude at the beginning of October and the museum will be a welcome new addition to the already expansive museum scene in Riga. Located at 9 Kronvalda bulvāris, the RSU Anatomy Museum will be a special place for anyone interested in getting to know the human body from the viewpoint of a surgeon or an anatomist.
A new smart device has been created as part of the new computerised individual personality assessment system. It was the result of several years of cooperation between researchers from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Riga Technical University (RTU). The device will make psychological testing in the army more convenient and efficient. We talked to project leader Ainārs Stepens who is a neurologist and Head of the RSU Military Medicine Research and Study Centre (pictured).
For the second year in a row, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) ranks first among Latvian higher education institutions in the SCImago Institutions Ranking 2020.
Lecturers from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) have developed new and innovative study courses and upgraded current courses by creating appropriate methodological solutions in four months with the financial support of the Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation. A repeated scholarship application period will open this August when healthcare and social sciences lecturers from RSU will have the opportunity to apply.
Baiba Kasakovska, a graduate of both the bachelor’s and master’s Nursing Studies programmes at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) calls herself a modern nurse because she welcomes patients with a smile, is understanding, responsive and knowledgeable. She believes that the nursing profession is a special calling for capable personalities with inexhaustible energy and a benevolence towards others.
‘Hey, have you received your master’s degree yet?’ Oxana Brante’s (pictured) friends asked her, the same friends who shook their heads in horror when she pushed her journalist’s career aside nine years ago and started from scratch, enrolling in the professional Pharmacy programme at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU).
The RSU Business Incubator launching in September, will be a new opportunity for young entrepreneurs or young people with ideas for a business, as well as for students simply interested in entrepreneurship. At the Business Incubator they will be able to gain new knowledge, skills and experience, to search and find partners, develop their unique product or service, as well as join a group of like-minded people who are already implementing their ideas or are planning to do so.
Loreta Lūkina has close ties to Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU): she has worked as a marketing specialist at RSU for three years and this is where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Communication. Loreta recently graduated from the Communication and Media Studies master’s programme. ‘Postgraduate studies helped expand the way I was thinking,’ says Loreta.
Dear students, lecturers, employees and graduates! Friends and supporters!
I congratulate all of you on the 70th anniversary of Rīga Stradiņš University!
Assistant Professor Jevgenijs Proskurins, Head of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Department of Physics, and Uldis Doniņš, Head of the RSU IT Department’s Information Systems Division, recently returned from the US with a store of knowledge and fresh ideas to share with both colleagues and students – for example a new study course where future healthcare professionals would be able to learn programming, ideas for a new 3D printing technology laboratory, and pedagogical innovations in higher education.
