The 2025 STaRT@Rice was 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