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 Modeling 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