The 2026 STaRT@Rice will be held on October 2-4.
Registration will open on August 17, 2026.
2026 STaRT@Rice Schedule
Friday, October 2
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ethnographic Techniques (Cymene Howe)
Creating Packages in R for Reusing, Testing, and Sharing Code (Sean Smith)
How Federal Research Funding Works: Tips and Strategies for Getting Funded (Simon Fischer-Baum)
Lasso and Ridge Regression in R (Scott Powers)
Welcome Reception | 130 Kraft Hall
4:30 pm
Opening Remarks
Research Relays
Light Bites
Saturday, October 3
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 (Elizabeth Roberto) (6-hour)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Computational Economics (Chase Coleman)
Web-Scraping with R (Alex Pugh)
Coding and Memoing in Qualitative Analysis (Anna Rhodes)
Introduction to Python (Hua Gong)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Effective Research Presentations (Kyung-Hee Bae)
Sociolinguistics and Language Discrimination (Nancy Niedzielski & Bryce McCleary)
Visualizing Text Data: An Introduction in Python (Corey Abramson)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Sunday, October 4
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Quantile Regression (Huixia Judy Wang) (6-hour)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Science and Art of Editing Your Own Work and Others’ (Ilana Gershon)
Using and Evaluating Large Language Models for Social Science Research (Siyu Liang)
Machine Learning (Edgar Avalos Gauna)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Survival Modeling and Time-to-Event Analyses (George Kypriotakis)
Demographic Detectives: Methods for Decoding Population Trends (Kevin Thomas)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Light bites with STaRT@Rice faculty and participants | 130 Kraft Hall
Closing Remarks