This year's STaRT@Rice will take place on October 11-14, 2024
Online registration for the 2024 STaRT@Rice is now closed. To be added to the on-site registration waitlist please contact start@rice.edu.
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 (full-time 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
Friday, October 11
Welcome Reception | 130 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Opening Remarks
Research Relays
Light Bites
Saturday, October 12
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
Introductory Track: Ethnographic Techniques I (Howe) | 125 Kraft Hall
Introductory Track: Agent-Based Modeling (Roberto) | 120 Kraft Hall
Professionalization Track: The Science and Art of Academic Writing (Gershon) | 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: Introduction to R (Ferguson) | 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: fMRI Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Denny) | 120 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Conducting Meta-Analysis (Oswald) | 105 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Coding and Memoing in Qualitative Analysis (Rhodes) | 125 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Sunday, October 13
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introductory Track: Sociolinguistics and Language Discrimination (Niedzielski & McCleary) | 125 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Introduction to Python (Gong) | 102 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Intermediate R (Bertolusso) | 105 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Multilevel Modeling (Li) | 120 Kraft Hall
Professionalization Track: Success in Grad School and Beyond--What Does This Mean and Tips for Achieving It (Leeds) | 110 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: Survey Design and Implementation via Qualtrics (Thompson) | 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Mixed Methods for Diversity Health Research (Garcini) | 125 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Data Cleaning and Wrangling in R Using tidyverse (Robinson) | 105 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Bayesian Thinking and Analysis (Vannucci) | 120 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Monday, October 14
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introductory Track: Experiments in the Social Sciences (Marschall & Wager) | 110 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Machine Learning (Gauna) | 125 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Approaches to Recovering Missing Data (Tyler) | 120 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Computational Economics (Coleman) | 102 Kraft Hall
Professionalization Track: Effective Research Presentations (Bae) | 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
Intermediate Track: Web-Scraping with R (Pugh) | 105 Kraft Hall
Intermediate Track: Archival Methods for Health Research in the Social Sciences (Waggoner) | 110 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Lasso and Ridge Regression in R (Powers) | 120 Kraft Hall
Advanced Track: Analyzing and Visualizing Census Data with R (Smith) | 125 Kraft Hall
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Closing Remarks