STaRT@Rice
STaRT@Rice is an innovative program that will provide a panoramic view of the research process and offer professionalization opportunities. It will increase expertise via exposure in applied workshops. Participants will learn how to ask better questions about the research process and develop important professional skills. Workshops will cover a broad range of content, moving from introductory to intermediate to advanced. Thus, participants can choose workshops matching their skill sets and background.
The 2025 STaRT@Rice will be held on October 3-5.
2025 STaRT@Rice Schedule
Friday, October 3
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lasso and Ridge Regression in R (Powers)
fMRI Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Denny)
Approaches to Recovering Missing Data (Tyler)
Welcome Reception | 130 Kraft Hall
4:30 pm
Opening Remarks
Research Relays
Light Bites
Saturday, October 4
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Spatial Analysis in R (Roberto) (6-hour)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Survey Design and Implementation via Qualtrics (Thompson)
The Science and Art of Academic Writing (Gershon)
Sociolinguistics and Language Discrimination (Niedzielski and McCleary)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Intermediate R (Bertolusso)
Machine Learning (Gauna)
Demystifying Generative AI: Foundations and Practical Workflows for Social Science Researchers (Sun)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Sunday, October 5
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Experiments in the Social Sciences (Marschall)
Computational Economics (Coleman)
Conducting Meta-Analysis (Oswald)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Visualizing Text Data: An Introduction in Python (Abramson)
Web-Scraping with R (Pugh)
Creating Packages in R for Reusing, Testing, and Sharing Code (Smith)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Closing Remarks