Rachael Kee

Rachael Kee

PhD candidate studying sleep, media, and dynamic behavioral processes using high-throughput, computational, and neuroscientific methods.

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2026

Inoxity Presented at SANS 2026

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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...

Selected as Top 10 Finalist at the UC Davis Grad Slam 2026

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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...

Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy

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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...

2025

Negativity Bias Research Presented at NCA 2025

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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...

iOS Research App Project Pitched at ICA 2025 Hackathon

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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...

Negativity Bias Research Presented at ICA 2025

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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...

CCSL 2024–25 Year-End Celebration

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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.

Negativity Bias Research Presented at APS 2025

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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...

Negativity Bias Research Presented at SANS 2025

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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...

2024

Research on Cleft Lip/Palate Repair Presented at ISHE 2024

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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...

Dream Classification Project Pitched at ICA 2024 Hackathon

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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...

Research on Cleft Lip/Palate Repair Presented at ICA 2024

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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...

CCSL 2023–24 Year-End Celebration

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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.

Negativity Bias Research Presented at Comm Horizons 2024

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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...

Top Paper Award at the Meaningful XR Conference 2024

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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...

Research on Cleft Lip/Palate Repair Presentated at WPA 2024

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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...

2023

Joining the CCSL: Lab Welcome Back Party, Fall 2023

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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...

2022

Research on Cleft Lip/Palate Repair Presentated at S4SN 2022

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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 ...

Community Engagement Award, Cal Poly Humboldt 2022

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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...

2020

Love of Learning Award, Cal Poly Humboldt 2020

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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...