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portfolio
Video GenAI Tools & College Success Permalink
Co-created video (2025, 4,000+ views) used as a discussion baseline for GenAI policy conversations between teachers and students in university research and writing courses.
PLeW: Interactive Data Landscape Visualization Tool Permalink
Co-created interactive visualization tool for exploring human evaluation data and complex data landscapes.
State Flow Mapper: Visualizing Categorical Change Over Time Permalink
Interactive tool for visualizing how a categorical field changes over time, comparing change logs from multiple raters or annotators side by side.
publications
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.
GenAI as Condition: Faculty Renegotiations of Professional Identity in the Classroom
Published in [Venue not yet public], 2026
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.
talks
The Archbishop: New Paths, Creating New Opportunities
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Oral presentation.
The Archbishop: New Paths, Creating New Opportunities
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Southeastern Massachusetts Student Network for Biodiesel Research and Education
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Group oral presentation.
Southeastern Massachusetts Student Network for Biodiesel Research and Education
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Solo poster presentation.
Southeastern Massachusetts Student Network for Biodiesel Research and Education
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Group poster and oral presentation, held at Oronoco Bay Park.
Applying 1H NMR Spectroscopy to Develop a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters
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Understanding the Impacts of Overturning Roe v. Wade
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Presented by Len Sprague & Aku Owaka-Haigh.
Brazil & Bolsonaro: Understanding the Jan. 8th Insurrection
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Presented by Len Sprague & Aku Owaka-Haigh.
Computers & Chemistry: How chemistry can be data, & how computers can do chemistry
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Presented by Len Sprague.
AI and Agency: Preserving Student Agency During Peer-review with AI Integration
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Presented by Len Sprague and Eric Vanden Bussche.
Overwhelmed to Organized! Reading Scientific Papers with Purpose (and Technique)
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Presented by Len Sprague.
AI in Presentations: Creation is what you make of it
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Presented by Len Sprague.
AI in Higher Education – Fireside Chat Permalink
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Presented by Dean Agustin Rayo (primary speaker) & Prof. Len Sprague.
Pedagogy & AI: How AI Usage and Capability Inform Classroom Policy and Practice
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Presented by Len Sprague.
Saving Lives with Synthetic Chemistry: Understanding a 2025 Chemical Innovation for Viral Detection
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Presented by Len Sprague.
Designing AI-Integrated Classroom Activities in ALESS/A Courses
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Presented by Len Sprague and Eric Vanden-Bussche.
Unraveling the “Magic” of AI
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Presented by Len Sprague.
teaching
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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