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) | 341 Kraft Hall
fMRI Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Denny) | 202 Kraft Hall
Approaches to Recovering Missing Data (Tyler) | 302 Kraft Hall
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) | 105 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Survey Design and Implementation via Qualtrics (Thompson) | 110 Kraft Hall
The Science and Art of Academic Writing (Gershon) | 120 Kraft Hall
Sociolinguistics and Language Discrimination (Niedzielski and McCleary) | 102 Kraft Hall
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) | 125 Kraft Hall
Machine Learning (Gauna) | 120 Kraft Hall
Demystifying Generative AI: Foundations and Practical Workflows for Social Science Researchers (Sun) | 110 Kraft Hall
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) | 110 Kraft Hall
Computational Economics (Coleman) | 120 Kraft Hall
Conducting Meta-Analysis (Oswald) | 125 Kraft Hall
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) | 110 Kraft Hall
Web-Scraping with R (Pugh) | 105 Kraft Hall
Creating Packages in R for Reusing, Testing, and Sharing Code (Smith) | 120 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Closing Remarks