Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Anatomy Museum invites you to an exhibition Ādas (Skins), which will be open from 31 August at Pauls Stradiņš Museum for History of Medicine at 1 Antonijas iela. Ādas is an interdisciplinary research and art project which is a joint collaboration between artist Ausma Šmite with the central focus — the restored collection of tattooed skins in the RSU Anatomy Museum.
RSU just held Orientation Week for newly-enrolled international and exchange students who will commence their studies in various disciplines at the University next week. Orientation Week is designed to help new students settle in to university life and Latvia.
On 30 August at 15:00 in an open session of Rīga Stradiņš University Medical Promotion Council (Conference Hall of the Medical Education Technology Centre, 26a Anniņmuižas bulvāris, Rīga) Ms Dace Bērtule will defend her thesis titled “Needs of Families with Children with Cerebral Palsy and Factors Affecting these Needs”.
In the dissertation the needs of families raising preschool-aged children with cerebral palsy in Latvia were researched.
The RSU Anatomy Museum is for pupils, students and researchers – anyone who is interested in the wonder of the human body.
Last week from 20 to 24 August, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) hosted the international summer school "Economic Modelling in Health Care", organised in conjunction with the University of Greifswald and the University of Wuppertal in Germany and the University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
The study of public health issues, the development of research projects based thereon and use of the results in improving public health as well as developing health policy are the tasks of the RSU Institute of Public Health (IPH), founded six months ago, as emphasised by its director, Prof. Gunta Lazdāne. Concluding as to which area of public health is topical and problematic, RSU researchers propose and implement projects on both an international and a national scale in Latvia.
Mentoring training, organised this summer by the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) International Department has now concluded. It involved several sessions of training of senior students to welcome freshmen and better integrate them into academic life and the local community during the last week in August. This summer we introduced a new mentor identification – a honorary pin that is awarded together with the mentor’s certificate to those senior students who have completed the training and act as mentors.
Continuing a decades-long tradition, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) invites freshmen to a Sports Day which will be held at Uzvaras Park on Thursday, 6 September from 11:00 to 17:00.
RSU graduate Kaspars Zlidnis and officer from the RSU International Department, former basketballer Dita Liepkalne will lead students in various sporting competitions - volleyball, basketball and football games as well as the 100 metre sprint, 1000 metre race and team relay race.
The Faculty of Communication at RSU was established in 2007 even though communication at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has been taught since 1998. Last year Professor Anda Rožukalne took up the mantle of Chair of the Faculty.
Studies in social sciences at Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) took root at the time that the Latvian Academy of Medicine faced a major transformation, in response to the situation faced by higher education in late 1990s. The decision to attain the status of a university was critical, by retaining the traditions of providing exceptional medical education and moving forward by expanding the offer with unique social studies programmes.
