This year's STaRT@Rice will take place on October 11-14, 2024
STaRT@Rice 2024 Pricing:
| Students | Academics | Professionals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Refundable Registration Fee (opens on 8/5) | $25 | $25 | $25 |
| Early Bird Full Access Registration (ends 9/2) | $150* | $250 | $350 |
| Regular Full Access Registration (ends 9/23) | $275 | $375 | $475 |
| Á La Carte Per Workshop Fee (ends 9/23) | $175 | $175 | $175 |
| On-Site Full Access Registration (10/11-10/14) | $575 | $575 | $575 |
*Scholarship eligible (undergraduate and non-medical graduate level students). Must submit a scholarship application in addition to registration and must attend six workshops.
Students = Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students and medical students
Academics = Rice and Houston-area alums, postdocs, faculty members, lecturers, university staff members, etc.
Professionals = Physicians, business owners and employees, industry workers, etc.
2024 STaRT@Rice schedule coming soon!
2023 STaRT@Rice Schedule
Friday, October 6
Welcome Reception | 130 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Opening Remarks
Research Relays
Light Bites
Saturday, October 7
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introductory Track: Introduction to Linear Models (Diaz), 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Introduction to Python (Gong), 105 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Bayesian Thinking and Analysis (Vannucci), 120 Kraft Hall
Health Track: Empowered Illness Narratives, Rewriting Health Inequalities (Massie), 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
Introductory Track: Introduction to R (Barber), 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Machine Learning (Gauna), 125 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Designing and Deploying a Data Visualization App (Mulligan), 120 Kraft Hall
Health Track: Archival Methods for Health Research in the Social Sciences (Waggoner), 105 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dinner with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Sunday, October 8
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introductory Track: Survey Design and Implementation via Qualtrics (Thompson), 110 Kraft Hall
Introductory Track: Ethnographic Techniques I (Howe), 125 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Intermediate R (Bertolusso), 105 Kraft Hall
Health Track: fMRI Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Denny), 120 Kraft Hall
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Introductory Track: Introduction to ArcGIS Pro and GIS Data Management (Gumel), 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Multilevel Modeling (Li), 105 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Sample Selectivity and Estimation of Counterfactual Distributions (Cunha), 120 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dinner with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Monday, October 9
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introductory Track: Data Collection via In-Depth Interviewing (Evans), 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Conducting Meta-Analysis (Oswald), 120 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Approaches to Recovering Missing Data (Tyler), 125 Kraft Hall
Health Track: Mixed Methods for Diversity Health Research (Garcini), 105 Kraft Hall
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Introductory Track: Effective Research Presentations (Bae), 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Coding and Memoing in Qualitative Analysis (Rhodes), 125 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Synthetic Control Group Designs Using Stata (Fiel), 120 Kraft Hall
Health Track: Using Electronic Medical Records in Public Health Research (Nguyen), 105 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dinner with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Closing Remarks