Dr. Cindy Heaster studied Medicine at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) between 2003 and 2009. Although originally from Australia, she found her way to Riga via Vilnius, and has chosen to stay in Latvia with her husband and children who were born here. We met at the first International Students Alumni Reunion organised by the RSU International Student Association (ISA) on 16 November 2019 where Dr. Heaster was invited as a guest of honour to reminisce and share her experience.
Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has been organising annual senior evenings in early January to thank both current and former long-term employees. Each of these employees has invested a lot of work to promote the development and growth of RSU. This year, RSU organised a concert programme Veltījums for its seniors with the participation of the composer Mārtiņš Brauns, the violin quartet Juno and vocal group Insomnia.
The inauguration of the project for the creation of the Baltic Biomaterial Excellence Center will take place on 29 January at the Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry of Riga Technical University. Egils Levits, the President of Latvia, state officials and officials from the European Commission as well as representatives from universities and scientific institutions will be in attendance.
We live in a time when traditional social values are being re-evaluated and changed, which raises many moral and ethical issues. One of them is whether to swear, i.e. whether using rude, insulting, abusive words and expressions is good or bad. Klāvs Sedlenieks, an associate professor at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), a social anthropologist and Head of the Social Anthropology masters’ study program, explains what swearing is.
On January 8 Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) opened the RSU Doctoral School - a platform for prospective and current PhD students, applicants, researchers and lecturers. The aim of the Doctoral School is to facilitate faster flow of information, a quality doctoral experience and to develop professional competencies in an interdisciplinary environment.
The main advantage of the new International Business and Start-up Entrepreneurship (Starptautiskais bizness un jaunuzņēmējdarbība) study programme at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is its international environment created by the selection of guest lecturers as well as by the studies themselves, which will be conducted not only at RSU, but in other European countries as well.
37 students graduated from various doctoral study programmes at Rīga Stradiņš Universiy (RSU) in 2019. They received their certificates at a ceremony on 11 December. Among them were doctoral students in medicine, law, pharmacy, communication, political science and sociology. The Minister of Health Ilze Viņķele, RSU Rector Professor Aigars Pētersons, Vice-Rector for Science Agrita Kiopa, the Dean of the Department of Doctoral Studies Prof. Sandra Lejniece, Vice-Rector for Health Studies Prof. Guntis Bahs and others were there to congratulate the graduates.
After evaluating all submissions for most significant scientific accomplishment of 2019, the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS) has announced ten notable scientific accomplishments. LAS also awarded seven LAS President’s Certificates of Appreciation. Among the recipients were several scientists and lecturers from Rīga Stradiņš Univesrity (RSU).
