Julia Volonts, an art therapist from New York, will carry out research at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) from September 2019 to May 2020. The researcher received the prestigious Fulbright scholarship that she will make full use of to analyse the psychological impact caused by historical events on individuals and on Latvian society, as well as how the impact of these events are transferred from one generation to the next.
On 16 and 17 May the best 1st year medical students from the Baltic States gathered at the Institute of Anatomy and Anthropology of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) to participate in the XVI International Anatomy Olympiad. This year human anatomy was mixed with art – the theme of the Olympiad was Ars divina or Divine Art.
This was the 16th International Anatomy Olympiad and saw the participation of eight teams from RSU, two teams from the University of Tartu and two from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
A press conference, organised by the Children’s Clinical University Hospital (CCUH) together with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), will take place on Tuesday 28 May at 11:00 in the Ebela Auditorium at CCUH. The leadership of CCUH and RSU will introduce their vision for a new multifunctional study centre.
The Department of Humanities at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will be hosting a seminar cycle themed Death and Personal Identity. The seminars are organised by Vilius Dranseika, researcher at Vilnius University, in collaboration with the Department of Humanities, RSU.
Jaakko Nieminen, a medical student from Finland and part of the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) team, achieved the best results at the Tet Riga Marathon which was held on 19 May this year. He crossed the finish line of the 10 km race first with a result of 32 minutes and 28 seconds. This is the best achievement of the RSU team to date. Nieminen did, however, also achieve the best results from the RSU team in 2017 and 2018 by coming in second in the same race.
On 16 – 17 May the Riga Technical University (RTU) hosted ICARe Alumni 2019, an international conference gathering those representatives from several institutions of higher education who are in charge of promoting cooperation between a university and its alumni. Representatives from 40 institutions of higher education and other educational establishments representing 23 countries took part in the event.
This year RSU Student Services received the award Structural Unit of the Year 2019 during the annual Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Academic Ball. ‘We are very excited and feel honoured and appreciated as we had been working hard the whole year,’ says Indra Treija, Director of Student Services.
The 1st East European Networking Congress for Trainees in Obstetrics and Gynaecology was held at Rīga Stradiņš University on 26-27 April. It gathered around 200 participants from 18 European countries.
