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Rachael Kee was selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists at the UC Davis Grad Slam 2026, UC Davis’s annual three-minute thesis competition. She presented a talk on her research examining how media u...
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Rachael Kee successfully advanced to doctoral candidacy in February 2026. Her qualifying exam paper, Beyond the Laboratory: Introducing High-Throughput Communication Science, proposes an integrativ...
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Rachael Kee presented A Year in the Making: Introducing Inoxity at the Computational Social Science Escape 2026 in Davis, CA. The presentation showcased the development of an early sleep and media ...
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Rachael Kee received the Best Innovation Award at the Computational Social Science (CSS) Escape 2025 at UC Davis for A New Tool for Sleep Science: Software Development to Capture EMA Data. A recap ...
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Rachael Kee received the NIH Dental & Craniofacial Research Building Bridges Award in recognition of her research on the perceptual effects of cleft lip/palate and craniofacial repair surgery. ...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators received the Top Paper Award at the Meaningful XR Conference at Stanford, CA. The paper, Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0: Using AR and M...
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Rachael Kee received the Community Engagement Award from the Department of Communication at California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt. The award recognizes contributions to community involv...
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Rachael Kee received the Love of Learning Award from the Department of Communication at California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt. The award recognizes academic achievement, intellectual cu...
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Rachael Kee presented Inoxity: A Modular iOS Platform for High-Throughput Data Collection at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS 2026) in San Diego, CA. The pr...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA 2025) in Denver, CO. The project, The Negativity Bi...
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Rachael Kee participated in the ICA Pre-Conference Hackathon at ICA 2025 in Denver, CO, pitching an idea for an iOS data collection application that later became Inoxity, her open-source iOS platfo...
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Rachael Kee co-authored two presentations at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2025) in Denver, CO, both examining the negativity bias in news consumpti...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington, D.C. The project, Negatively Valenced and High-Arousal News Headlines Drive...
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Rachael Kee presented two projects at Comm Horizons @ UCD 2025: Media, Health, and Society. One presentation introduced an early version of her mobile research platform designed to study sleep and ...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) in Chicago, IL. The project, Negatively Valenced an...
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Co-authored research from Rachael Kee’s MA thesis was presented at the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) Conference 2024, held in Arcata, CA. The project The Effects of Cleft Lip/Pala...
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Rachael Kee participated in the ICA Pre-Conference Hackathon as a first-time attendee at ICA 2024 in Gold Coast, AU. She pitched an idea for an LLM-based dream classifier designed to automate the c...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2024) in Gold Coast, AU. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Surgery Restore Norma...
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Rachael Kee and collaborators presented two projects at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in San Francisco, CA, including work on the negativity bias and medi...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at Comm Horizons @ UCD 2024: Information Integrity, UC Davis’s annual departmental conference. The project, Preferential Evidence...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators received the Top Paper Award at the Meaningful XR Conference at Stanford, CA. The paper, Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0: Using AR and M...
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Co-authored research was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) in San Francisco, CA. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Restore Normal Visual Scanning an...
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Two presentations from Rachael Kee’s research group were featured at IdeaFest 2023 at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The projects examined the effects of cleft lip/palate on vis...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) in San Diego, CA. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Restore Normal Visual Scanning and Neural ...
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Rachael Kee delivered an invited talk titled Media Use, Sleep, and Well-being as Digital Risk Biomarkers of Dementia for the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). The talk presented ...
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Rachael Kee delivered an invited lecture titled Why We Sleep, Why We Dream, and Why Your Phone Might Influence Both for PSYC 104: Introduction to Psychology at California Polytechnic State Universi...
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Rachael Kee was an invited panelist for a Communication Department Alumni Panel at California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt. She joined fellow alumni in discussing post-graduate pathways, ...
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Rachael Kee presented Inoxity: A Modular iOS Platform for High-Throughput Data Collection at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS 2026) in San Diego, CA. The pr...
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Rachael Kee co-authored two presentations at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2025) in Denver, CO, both examining the negativity bias in news consumpti...
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The CCSL wrapped up the 2024-25 academic year with its annual celebration. A full year-in-review is posted on the CCSL website.
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Rachael Kee presented research at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington, D.C. The project, Negatively Valenced and High-Arousal News Headlines Drive...
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Rachael Kee presented two projects at Comm Horizons @ UCD 2025: Media, Health, and Society. One presentation introduced an early version of her mobile research platform designed to study sleep and ...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) in Chicago, IL. The project, Negatively Valenced an...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2024) in Gold Coast, AU. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Surgery Restore Norma...
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The CCSL celebrated the end of the 2023-24 academic year with its annual gathering. A recap is posted on the CCSL website.
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Rachael Kee joined the Cognitive Communication Science Lab (CCSL) at UC Davis in Fall 2023, beginning her PhD in Communication under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Huskey. A recap of the lab’s welco...
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Rachael Kee presented Inoxity: A Modular iOS Platform for High-Throughput Data Collection at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS 2026) in San Diego, CA. The pr...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA 2025) in Denver, CO. The project, The Negativity Bi...
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Rachael Kee co-authored two presentations at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2025) in Denver, CO, both examining the negativity bias in news consumpti...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington, D.C. The project, Negatively Valenced and High-Arousal News Headlines Drive...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) in Chicago, IL. The project, Negatively Valenced an...
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Co-authored research from Rachael Kee’s MA thesis was presented at the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) Conference 2024, held in Arcata, CA. The project The Effects of Cleft Lip/Pala...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2024) in Gold Coast, AU. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Surgery Restore Norma...
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Rachael Kee and collaborators presented two projects at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in San Francisco, CA, including work on the negativity bias and medi...
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Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at Comm Horizons @ UCD 2024: Information Integrity, UC Davis’s annual departmental conference. The project, Preferential Evidence...
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Co-authored research was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) in San Francisco, CA. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Restore Normal Visual Scanning an...
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Two presentations from Rachael Kee’s research group were featured at IdeaFest 2023 at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The projects examined the effects of cleft lip/palate on vis...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) in San Diego, CA. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Restore Normal Visual Scanning and Neural ...
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Rachael Kee was selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists at the UC Davis Grad Slam 2026, UC Davis’s annual three-minute thesis competition. She presented a talk on her research examining how media u...
Published:
Rachael Kee successfully advanced to doctoral candidacy in February 2026. Her qualifying exam paper, Beyond the Laboratory: Introducing High-Throughput Communication Science, proposes an integrativ...
Published:
Rachael Kee presented A Year in the Making: Introducing Inoxity at the Computational Social Science Escape 2026 in Davis, CA. The presentation showcased the development of an early sleep and media ...
Published:
Co-authored research by Rachael Kee and collaborators was presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA 2025) in Denver, CO. The project, The Negativity Bi...
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Rachael Kee co-authored two presentations at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2025) in Denver, CO, both examining the negativity bias in news consumpti...
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Rachael Kee received the Best Innovation Award at the Computational Social Science (CSS) Escape 2025 at UC Davis for A New Tool for Sleep Science: Software Development to Capture EMA Data. A recap ...
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Rachael Kee presented research at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2024) in Gold Coast, AU. The project, Does Cleft Palate Repair Surgery Restore Norma...
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Rachael Kee delivered an invited talk titled Media Use, Sleep, and Well-being as Digital Risk Biomarkers of Dementia for the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). The talk presented ...
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Rachael Kee delivered an invited lecture titled Why We Sleep, Why We Dream, and Why Your Phone Might Influence Both for PSYC 104: Introduction to Psychology at California Polytechnic State Universi...
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Rachael Kee was an invited panelist for a Communication Department Alumni Panel at California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt. She joined fellow alumni in discussing post-graduate pathways, ...
