We have been in touch with Arkādijs Zvaigzne twice, in February and in May, and it seems like an entire era has passed between the two conversations. He returned to Riga from the East Coast of the United States shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic and obtained a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania online. Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) was the first higher education institution Arkādijs attended.
Irina Mariotti is from Bolzano in northern Italy. She started her medical studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) in February 2016.
What is your favourite time of year in Riga?
June is one of my favourite months in the city. Every corner of the city is decorated with colourful flower compositions. The gardening culture is something I really like. Jāņi, or Midsummer Day, is one of my favourite Latvian celebrations.
Michael Strmiska is currently working at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) on a Fulbright Scholarship from the United States. He has a PhD in Religious Studies and is in Latvia to teach religion-oriented courses at the departments of anthropology and media studies. He became interested in European pagan movements after visiting Iceland in 1996 on another Fulbright Scholarship. Witnessing an autumn equinox ritual there and feeling its spiritual power, Dr. Strmiska's interest in paganism grew, and took over his academic life.
Dear newly enrolled RSU Student,
Congratulations on being admitted to Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU)! I am delighted to learn that you will be joining RSU this autumn and hope that you feel enthusiastic about starting your studies at our university.
To help you better prepare for your studies at RSU, I would like to inform you about several important matters:
Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is ranked among the 25 best universities in the world in the research category on Open Access publications in the U-Multirank international university rankings published on 9 June 2020.
For the third year in a row, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has steadily maintained its position in the 801–1000 group in the QS World University Rankings 2021, an international ranking of institutions of higher education. Despite its steady place in the overall ranking, RSU improves its performance every year according to QS data.
On 9 June, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted the decision to end the state of emergency in Latvia and ease restrictions on gathering size. The management of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is therefore planning to hold the summer graduation ceremonies in the backyard of the Great Hall and in the nearby Inspiration Park. All epidemiological safety measures will be observed to protect graduates, employees and the general public.
Graduation ceremony procedure
The graduation will consist of two parts:
From 2018 to 2019, the article "Prevalence of self-reported chronic pain among adolescents: Evidence from 42 countries and regions” by Assoc. Prof. Inese Gobiņa, a leading researcher at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Institute of Public Health, was in the top 10% of the most downloaded articles in the internationally acclaimed European Journal of Pain.
