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The Archbishop’s Odyssey

Published in The Undergraduate Review (Bridgewater State University Journal of Undergraduate Research), 2014

Sole-authored undergraduate research article, published in Bridgewater State University’s student research journal.

Recommended citation: Sprague, L. (2014). "The Archbishop's Odyssey." The Undergraduate Review, 10(1), Article 28, 143–148.
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Applying 1H NMR Spectroscopy to Develop a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters

Published in The Nucleus (Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society), 2016

Summer scholar research report summarizing NMR-based kinetic modeling of biodiesel transesterification chemistry.

Recommended citation: Sprague, L. W. (2016). "Applying 1H NMR Spectroscopy to Develop a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters." The Nucleus.
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Development of a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters Using 1H (1D and 2D) NMR

Published in Honors Program Theses and Projects, Bridgewater State University, 2016

Undergraduate honors thesis using quantitative 1H NMR (1D and 2D) to track transesterification kinetics in biodiesel production, informing future catalyst design.

Recommended citation: Sprague, L. W. (2016). "Development of a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters Using 1H (1D and 2D) NMR." Honors Program Theses and Projects, Bridgewater State University, Item 141.
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Struggle of Choice

Published in ASBMB Today (Night Owl Series), 2019

Personal essay on chronic night-owl sleep patterns, published in the ASBMB Today Night Owl Series.

Recommended citation: Sprague, L. (2019). "Struggle of Choice." ASBMB Today, Night Owl Series.
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Maximizing Thermoelectric Figures of Merit by Uniaxially Straining Indium Selenide

Published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019

First-author computational chemistry study on strain-engineering thermoelectric performance in indium selenide.

Recommended citation: Sprague, L. W., Jr., Huang, C., Song, J.-P., & Rubenstein, B. M. (2019). "Maximizing Thermoelectric Figures of Merit by Uniaxially Straining Indium Selenide." Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(41), 25437–25447.
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Exploring Chemical Equilibrium for Alcohol-Based Cobalt Complexation through Visualization of Color Change and UV–Vis Spectroscopy

Published in Journal of Chemical Education, 2019

Chemical education article on teaching equilibrium concepts via cobalt complexation color-change demonstrations and UV-Vis spectroscopy.

Recommended citation: Ren, J., Lin, T., Sprague, L. W., Peng, I., & Wang, L.-Q. (2020). "Exploring Chemical Equilibrium for Alcohol-Based Cobalt Complexation through Visualization of Color Change and UV–Vis Spectroscopy." Journal of Chemical Education, 97(2), 509–516.
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Multicomponent Molecular Memory

Published in Nature Communications, 2020

Collaborative work (7th of 15 authors) on a molecular-scale data storage and memory system.

Recommended citation: Arcadia, C. E., Kennedy, E., Geiser, J., Dombroski, A., Oakley, K., Chen, S.-L., Sprague, L., Ozmen, M., Sello, J., Weber, P. M., Reda, S., Rose, C., Kim, E., Rubenstein, B. M., & Rosenstein, J. K. (2020). "Multicomponent Molecular Memory." Nature Communications, 11, 691.
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PLeW-NLG: Interactive Exploration of Human Evaluation Data across NLG Tasks

Published in INLG 2026 (Demo Track), 2026

Accepted demo paper on an interactive tool for exploring human evaluation data across natural language generation tasks.

Recommended citation: Full author list not yet public as of this writing (INLG 2026 camera-ready due September 7, 2026; conference October 17–21, 2026).

Collaborative Exploration of Complex Data Landscapes with PleW

Published in Oral Archives Journal, 2026

Accepted article on collaborative tools for exploring complex data landscapes, related to the PleW project.

Recommended citation: Author list pending final confirmation. Likely collaborators (per related PleW project work) include Prof. Francesco Cangemi and Dr. Fahime Same (Trivago N.V.), though author order is unconfirmed.

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Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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