From 26 to 28 August 2020 the International Department at Rīga Stradiņš University’s (RSU) organised Orientation Week for international students online for the first time.
Around 400 newly enrolled students from 31 different countries joined the online event. On the first day, the new students were introduced to RSU and learned about the class of Autumn Semester 2020. Prof. Deniss Hanovs discussed Latvian culture and topics related to inclusion and adapting to Latvia.
Together with a team of graduates from the Social Anthropology programme, Klāvs Sedlenieks, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), is conducting an extensive study to find out how residents of Latvia evaluate and comply with the restrictions put in place due to COVID-19. The study is part of the national research project Life with COVID-19, which has been approved by the Latvian Council of Science.
Sarah Liebner is about to start her 12th semester at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). Sarah is from Germany, and has worked as a lifeguard there since she was a teenager. She has been active in organising lifeguarding courses at RSU that started in the autumn of 2018, and hopes they will re-start in some form this year as well.
The RSU Research Breakfast on the topic of Vertically Integrated Projects at Rīga Stradiņš University will take place on Wednesday, 2 September.
This spring, 13 lecturers from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) received a targeted grant named after patron Boris Teterev to modernise study courses. ‘The grant is a positive impetus for change that inspires us to think about how to teach our study courses better,’ says Eduards Baķis (pictured), a lecturer at the Department of Human Physiology and Biochemistry of the Faculty of Medicine and one of the recipients. Baķis teaches general chemistry.
The seminar Mastering your Data – from Exploration to Visualization / Final Project will take place on 18 December as part of the RSU Doctoral School.
The webinar Mastering your Data – from Exploration to Visualization / Data Management will take place on 2 December as part of the RSU Doctoral School.
