Here is a Quanta story featuring the research of former and current UMass Dartmouth graduate students Niranjan Roy, Vishal Tiwari, Daniel Kosakowski, and Dr. Rahul Kashyap:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-lights-the-universes-standard-candles-20230208/

The results featured were published in an Astrophysical Journal Letter earlier this year with Niranjan as lead author and the other current and former students as co-authors along with collaborators in Israel, the UK, and Spain.