Publications

Editor-accepted article on how generative AI is reshaping faculty professional identity in the classroom; currently in peer review.

Recommended citation: Author position, venue, and exact date not yet public. Editor accepted; peer review pending.

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.

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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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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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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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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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).

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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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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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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