Department Publications

2020s

2025

• PANDA-PLUS: Improved dataset of prostate whole slide images from PANDA Challenge with pixel-level expert annotations

  Spencer Hopson^‡, Carson Mildon^‡, Corbyn Kubalek^‡, Joshua Ebbert^‡, Ryan Vance^‡, Lauren Laverty^‡, Paul Urie, and Dennis Della Corte

  J. Pathol. Inform. 20, 100540 (2025).
  
• Modeling frameworks in nutritional epidemiology matter: comparing isotemporal and time-lagged Bayesian and frequentist approaches of carbohydrate intake and adiposity

  Sean Titensor^‡, Joshua L. Ebbert^‡, David Camacho^‡, Karen A. Della Corte, Antonio L. Palmeira, R. James Stubbs, … and Dennis Della Corte (2 other authors)

  Front. Nutr. 12, 1700898 (2025).
  
• Investigating the dust mitigation abilities of dissociative degradation

  Alexandra K. Stapley^‡, Matthew T. Clarkson^‡, Kira B. Sand^‡, Marian Stradling^‡, Morgan Peterson^‡, Joshua J. Vawdrey^‡, Osemudiamhen D. Amienghemhen^†, … David D. Allred, … (2 other authors)

  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 43 (6), 060404 (2025).
  
• Measuring the world's most powerful rocket: Noise from Starship Super Heavy

  Kent L. Gee, Noah L. Pulsipher^†, Makayle S. Kellison^‡, and Grant W. Hart

  Australian Acoustical Society, ACOUSTICS2025: Acoustics 2025, (Joondalup, Western Australia, November 2025).
  
• Neural Network-Based Nonlinearity Calibration in Sub-Newton, Low-Force Sensors for Wearables

  Jacob Anderson^‡, David Nichols^‡, Nicholas E. Allen^‡, Sharisse Poff^†, David V. Anderson^‡, Brian Jensen, Richard Vanfleet, Robert Davis, … (1 other authors)

  2025 IEEE 68th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), (Lansing, MI, August 2025).
  
• Extended color twin Higgs

  Brian Batell, Thomas Cochran^‡, Logan Page^†, and Christopher B. Verhaaren

  J. High Energy Phys. 2025, 92 (2025).
  
• ChronoSort: Revealing Hidden Dynamics in AlphaFold3 Structure Predictions

  Matthew J. Argyle^‡, William P. Heaps^‡, Corbyn Kubalek^‡, Spencer S. Gardiner^‡, Bradley C. Bundy, and Dennis Della Corte

  SynBio 3 (4), 18 (2025).
  
• Experimental assessment of passive radiator parameters using normal-incidence sound transmission measurements

  Brian E. Anderson, Spencer T. Neu^†, Joshua F. Gregg^‡, Sarah M. Young^†, and Timothy W. Leishman

  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158 (5), 3697-3710 (2025).
  
• Cluster spin glass correlations and dynamics in Zn_0.5Mn_0.5Te

  Sabrina R. Hatt^†, Camille Shaw^‡, Emma Zappala^†, Raju Baral^†, Stuart Calder, Gerald D. Morris, … Karine Chesnel, and Benjamin A. Frandsen (1 other authors)

  Phys. Rev. B 112 (14), 144440 (2025).
  
• Explainable machine learning models for classifying reactions within crowd noise during men's collegiate basketball games

  Mitchell C. Cutler^‡, Jason Bickmore^‡, Mark K. Transtrum, Katrina Pedersen^†, Shannon Proksch^‡, Eli Farrer, and Kent Gee

  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158 (4), 3456-3471 (2025).
  
• Transfer learning to account for sound speed changes: Example for source ranging in underwater laboratory tank

  Natalie J. Bickmore^‡, Corey E. Dobbs^†, Cameron T. Vongsawad^†, and Tracianne B. Neilsen

  JASA Express Letters 5 (10), 106003 (2025).
  
• Problem-Solving Frameworks for Tutorials in Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism

  James Hecht^‡, Andrew J. Mason, Matthew Rundquist^‡, Seth Read^‡, David Neilsen, and John S. Colton

  Physics Education Research Conference 2025, (Washington, DC, August 2025).
  
• Far-ultraviolet optical properties and performance of physical vapor deposited aluminum mirrors protected with XeLiF and XeMgF₂

  Manuel A. Quijada, Javier G. Del Hoyo, Luis V. Rodriguez de Marcos, Edward J. Wollack, Mateo F. Batkis, Devin M. Lewis^‡, Tanner D. Rydalch^‡, and David D. Allred

  J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 11 (4), 042209 (2025).
  
• Determining the nanostructure of polymer foams using 3D ptycho-tomography for inertial fusion energy applications

  L. Hancock^‡, K. Mertes, A. Carr, X. Xia, C. Sweeney, M. Ikeya, … R. L. Sandberg, … (14 other authors)

  Phys. Plasmas 32 (10), 102707 (2025).
  
• Nonlinear waveform steepening in time reversal focusing of airborne, one-dimensional sound waves

  Michael M. Hogg^‡, Brian D. Patchett^†, and Brian E. Anderson

  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158 (4), 3097-3106 (2025).
  
• The effect of low-vacuum environments on particulate contamination near Starshade edge

  Brandon J. Titensor^‡, Lauren W. Miner^‡, Joshua J. Vawdrey^‡, Stuart B. Shaklan^‡, and David D. Allred

  Space Systems Contamination: Prediction, Control, and Performance 2025, (San Diego, CA, August 2025). Proc. SPIE 13628, 1362802 (2025).
  
• The effect of first contact polymer storage on xenon difluoride passivated lithium fluoride on aluminum films

  Joshua J. Vawdrey^‡, Lauren W. Miner^‡, Luis V. Rodriguez de Marcos, James P. Hamilton, and David D. Allred

  Space Systems Contamination: Prediction, Control, and Performance 2025, (San Diego, CA, August 2025).  Proc. SPIE 13628, 136280N (2025).
  
• Variable-angle, spectroscopic ellipsometry study based on determining the effect of first contact polymer on XeF₂-passivated MgF₂ on Al

  Lauren W. Miner^‡, Joshua J. Vawdrey^‡, Brandon J. Titensor^‡, James P. Hamilton, Richard R. Vanfleet, and David D. Allred

  UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts XII, (San Diego, CA, August 2025).  Proc. SPIE 13623, 1362308 (2025).
  
• Preferred Trapping Locations of Microscopic Particles Held in a Laser Beam via Photophoresis

  J. Peatross, S. Kunzler^‡, S. Christiansen^‡, and M. Ware

  SPIE Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XXII; Nanoscience + Engineering, (San Diego, CA, August 2025). Proc. SPIE 13580, 135800I (2025).
  
• Resolution of physics and deep learning-based protein engineering filters: A case study with a lipase for industrial substrate hydrolysis

  Spencer Gardiner^‡, Peter Dollinger, Filip Kovacic, Jörg Pietruszka, Daniel H. Ess, Karl-Erich Jaeger, Gunnar F. Schröder, and Dennis Della Corte

  PLoS One 20, 1-21 (2025).
  
• Departures from standard disc predictions in intensive ground-based monitoring of three AGNs

  D Gonzalez-Buitrago, A J Barth, R Edelson, J V Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne, T Schmidt, … M D Joner, … M Hallum^‡, … J Kruger^‡, … M Spencer^‡, … (35 other authors)

  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 542 (3), 2572-2596 (2025).
  
• Magnetic nanoparticles tethered with Zn–DPA for the removal of bacteria from red blood cell suspension

  Tochukwu P. Okonkwo^†, Rajendra P. Gautam^‡, Jacob B. Limburg^‡, Breckin L. Forstrom^‡, Bowen J. Houser^†, Aaron Rappleyea^‡, Tyler P. Green^†, Joseph P. Talley^‡, Alexander D. Daum^‡, … Karine Chesnel, … (3 other authors)

  RSC Adv. 15 (38), 31402-31415 (2025).
  
• Shock propagation in aerogel and TPP foams for inertial fusion energy target design

  C. Parisuaña, M. P. Valdivia, V. Bouffetier, K. Kurzer-Ogul, G. Pérez-Callejo, S. Bott-Suzuki, … D. Hodge^†, … M. Leininger^‡, … R. L. Sandberg, … (25 other authors)

  Phys. Plasmas 32 (8), 082707 (2025).
  
• Estimating area under the curve from graph-derived summary data: a systematic comparison of standard and Monte Carlo approaches

  Sean Titensor^‡, Joshua Ebbert^‡, Karen Della Corte, and Dennis Della Corte

  BMC Med. Educ. 25 (1), 197 (2025).
  
• A compact tabletop extreme-ultraviolet source for polarization-sensitive ptychographic imaging

  Taylor J. Buckway^†, Aaron Redd^‡, Hyrum Taylor^‡, Jacob Feltman^‡, Kaylee Nyborg^‡, J. Nicholas Porter^†, Joshua A. Miller^‡, David Allred, and Richard L. Sandberg

  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 96 (8), 083706 (2025).
  
• An investigation of directional and vibrational characteristics of a nonlinear harmonic of a Balinese gamelan gong

  Dallin Harwood^‡, Hanna Pavill^†, and Micah Shepherd

  188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America joint with 25th International Congress on Acoustics, (New Orleans, LA, May 2025). Proc. Meet. Acoust. 56 (1), 035002 (2025).
  
• CO Emission and Absorption-line Survey of the M87 Nucleus Using Archival ALMA Imaging

  Benjamin D. Boizelle, Xueyi Li, Nicholas LeVar^‡, Sam Norcross^‡, Benjamin J. Derieg^‡, Jared R. Davidson^‡, Kavin Siaw, and Jonelle L. Walsh

  Astrophys. J. 989 (1), 83 (2025).
  
• Geometrizing the anomaly

  Joshua Newey^‡, John Terning, and Christopher B. Verhaaren

  J. High Energy Phys. 2025, 5 (2025).
  
• Mechanisms for carbon nanotube growth on oxidized 316L stainless steel substrates

  Joshua D. Hancock^†, Alexander K. Michas^‡, Brian D. Jensen, Felipe Rivera, and Richard R. Vanfleet

  Appl. Surf. Sci. 710, 163993 (2025).
  
• Enhancing AI literacy in undergraduate pre-medical education through student associations: an educational intervention

  Spencer Hopson^‡, Carson Mildon^‡, Kyle Hassard^‡, Corbyn Kubalek^‡, Lauren Laverty^‡, Paul Urie, and Dennis Della Corte

  BMC Bioinformatics 25 (1), 999 (2025).
  
• X-ray Parametric Down Conversion at an XFEL

  Hartley, Nicholas J., Baxter, James, Curtis, Scott^‡, Daisuke, Okhura, Halavanau, Aliaksei, Carpenter, Abigail^‡, … Sandberg, Richard, … (7 other authors)

  Optica 12 (7), 961-967 (2025).
  
• A Survey of Model Fits to Brown Dwarf Spectra Through the L–T Sequence

  Savanah K. Turner^†, Denise C. Stephens, Conner B. Scoresby, and Josh A. Miller^‡

  Astron. J. 170 (1), 43 (2025).
  
• Visible collider signals of natural quirks

  Joshua Forsyth^†, Matthew Low, Carson Tenney^‡, and Christopher B. Verhaaren

  Phys. Rev. D 111 (11), 115021 (2025).
  
• An Active Quasi-Circulator Technique for MHz Impedance Measurement for Wearables

  Sharisse Poff^†, Daniel H. Tebbs^†, Nicholas E. Allen^‡, Marcus Julian, Robert C. Davis, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang

  IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 74, 1-10 (2025).
  
• Effect of the repeated application of First Contact™ polymer on xenon-difluoride passivated lithium fluoride on aluminum surfaces for space telescopes

  Joshua Vawdrey^‡, James Hamilton, Drew Watson, Lauren Miner^‡, Osemudiamhen Destiny Amienghemhen^†, Walter Paxton, and David Allred

  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 43 (4), 043408 (2025).
  
• Using Firefly Alpha’s first-stage anomaly to examine clustered nozzle effects in rocket noise

  Matthew G. Yancey^‡, Griffin Houston^‡, Grant W. Hart, Logan T. Mathews^†, Michael S. Bassett^‡, J. Taggart Durrant^‡, and Kent L. Gee

  182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Denver, CO, May 2022). Proc. Meet. Acoust. 46 (1), 040005 (2025).
  
• TrIP2: Expanding the Transformer Interatomic Potential Demonstrates Architectural Scalability for Organic Compounds

  Joshua Ebbert^‡, Bryce Hedelius^†, Jyothish Joy, Daniel H. Ess, and Dennis Della Corte

  J. Phys. Chem. A 129 (21), 4757-4766 (2025).
  
• Dietary Sugar Intake and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Risk: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

  Karen A. Della Corte, Tyler Bosler^†, Cole McClure^‡, Anette E. Buyken, James D. LeCheminant, Lukas Schwingshackl, and Dennis Della Corte

  Adv. Nutr. 16 (5), 100413 (2025).
  
• Coherent diffraction imaging in the undergraduate laboratory

  J. Nicholas Porter^†, David J. Anderson^‡, Julio Escobedo^‡, David D. Allred, Nathan D. Powers, and Richard L. Sandberg

  Am. J. Phys. 93 (5), 415-421 (2025).
  
• Writing for the Future. What are the Options?

  Barry M. Lunt, Felipe Riviera, Joshua Santos^†, Armando Carreon^†, Joshua Isaacson^‡, and Matthew R. Linford

  J. Imaging Sci. Technol. 69 (2), (2025).
  
• Sound power level spectra of an installed General Electric F404 engine

  Hunter J. Pratt^‡, Logan T. Mathews^†, Tyce W. Olaveson^†, and Kent L. Gee

  JASA Express Letters 5 (4), 043601 (2025).
  
• Structural determination of a cubic Ni-rich phase in Hf-Ni-Ti

  Jason Meziere^†, Soumya Mohan, Brayden Bekker^‡, Hayden Oliver^‡, Luke Cvetko^‡, Aaron P. Stebner, and Gus L.W. Hart

  Acta Mater. 287, 120748 (2025).
  
• Dimensionality-Controlled Confinement Effects for Tunable Optoelectronic Properties in Quasi-1D Hybrid Perovskites

  Yi Xie, Jack Morgenstein, Kameron R. Hansen, Heshan Hewa-Walpitage, Carter M. Shirley, Purusharth Amrut, … Trigg Randall^‡, Levi Homer^‡, Garrett Davis^‡, … John S. Colton, … (10 other authors)

  ACS Nano 19 (13), 12895-12909 (2025).
  
• Optical changes in whole blood versus glucose concentration

  Jared Roth^‡, Jared Logan^†, James Harkness^†, Richard Vanfleet, Robert Davis, William Pitt, and Tyler Westover

  Proc. SPIE 13320, 133200H (2025).
  
• Beyond Point Masses. IV. Trans-Neptunian Object Altjira Is Likely a Hierarchical Triple Discovered through Non-Keplerian Motion

  Maia A Nelsen^‡, Darin Ragozzine, Benjamin C. N. Proudfoot^†, William G. Giforos^‡, and Will Grundy

  Planet. Sci. J. 6 (53), 53 (2025).
  
• Leveraging Scientific Explanations for Sensemaking in Virtual Science Classrooms: A Study of Preservice Elementary Teachers During the Pandemic

  Adam H. Bennion, Madeline Harmer, Chandler Jensen and James Hecht^‡

  J. Sci. Teach. Educ., 1-21 (2025).
  
• Experimental and computational study of phase space dynamics in strongly coupled plasmas with steep density gradients

  Scott Bergeson, Matthew Schlitters^‡, Matthew Miller^‡, Ben Farley^†, Devin Sieverts^‡, Michael S. Murillo, and Jeffrey R. Haack

  Phys. Plasmas 32 (3), 032104 (2025).
  
• Starship Super Heavy acoustics: Comparing launch noise from Flights 5 and 6

  Kent L. Gee, Noah L. Pulsipher^‡, Makayle S. Kellison^‡, Grant W. Hart, Logan T. Mathews^†, and Mark C. Anderson^†

  JASA Express Letters 5 (2), 023602 (2025).
  
• Deriving played trumpet directivity patterns from a multiple-capture transfer-function technique

  Samuel D. Bellows^†, Joseph E. Avila^‡, and Timothy W. Leishman

  Acta Acust. United Ac. 9, 13 (2025).
  
• Small-angle rigid-unit modes requiring linear strain compensation

  Bryce T. Eggers^‡, Harold T. Stokes, and Branton J. Campbell

  Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A 81 (1), 26-35 (2025).
  
• Far-field noise measurements of a supersonic jet operating near afterburning conditions

  Ashwin Kumar, Joseph Meadows, Tyce W. Olaveson^†, Kent L. Gee, Logan T. Mathews^†, and Hunter J. Pratt^‡

  Aerosp. Sci. Technol. 157, 109842 (2025).
  
• Using photographs to verify the nature of Mach wave radiation from a Falcon 9 rocket plume

  Grant W. Hart, Kent L. Gee, Eric G. Hintz, Nathan F. Carlston^‡, Giovanna G. Nuccitelli^‡, and Trevor Mahlmann

  186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 2024). Proc. Meet. Acoust. 54 (1), 040012 (2025).
  
• Using Orthogonal Chirps Underwater for In-Band, Full-Duplex Communication with Minimal Self-Interference Cancellation

  Bryson Schiel^‡, Joshua Montierth^‡, Eli Blattner^‡, Corey E Dobbs^‡, Tracianne B Nielsen, and Philip Lundrigan

  WUWNET '24: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems, (Šibenik, Croatia, October 2024).
  
• Feature engineering descriptors, transforms, and machine learning for grain boundaries and variable-sized atom clusters

  C. Braxton Owens^‡, Nithin Mathew, Tyce W. Olaveson^†, Jacob P. Tavenner, Edward M. Kober, Garritt J. Tucker, Gus L. W. Hart, and Eric R. Homer

  NPJ Comput. Mater. 11 (1), 21 (2025).
  
• Association and substitution analyses of dietary sugars, starch and fiber for indices of body fat and cardiometabolic risk– a NoHoW sub-study

  Karen A. Della Corte, Dennis Della Corte, David Camacho^‡, Graham Horgan, Antonio L. Palmeira, James Stubbs, and Berit L. Heitmann

  Eur. J. Nutr. 64 (2), 68 (2025).
  
• Multi-wavelength picture of the misaligned BL Lac object 3C 371

  J. Otero-Santos, C. M. Raiteri, A. Tramacere, J. Escudero Pedrosa, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, M. I. Carnerero, … M. D. Joner, … G. Apolonio^‡, … (47 other authors)

  Astron. Astrophys. 693, A196 (2025).
  
• Quantum Game Theory and Genuine Quantum Advantage

  Noah D. Hebdon^‡ and Jean-François S. Van Huele

  2024 Annual Conference of the  Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters (Logan, UT, March 2024). J. Utah Acad. Sci. 101, (2025).
  

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