We recently reported on a three-week course-based undergraduate research experience, or CURE, that was developed in the context of an upper-level organic chemistry laboratory course at Indiana University (J. Chem. Educ. 2021, 98, 11, 3533-3541). The focus of the research project was on the synthesis and biological analysis of small libraries of quorum sensing inhibitors. We expanded this project into a year-long CURE that is part of IU’s ASURE (Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Experiences) program. One of the goals of the ASURE program is to get students into research early on in their college career, and students start in the spring semester of their first year. In this presentation, I will outline the project in both contexts and will go over main takeaways from the two experiences.

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