Our DOE EPSCoR Retreat and Site Visit was held on Monday and Tuesday, April 15-16, 2003, at the Bishop Booth Conference Center in Burlington. Seventy-six people attended, including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, technicians and graduate students. Thirty-six posters were presented from each of the research projects, the core facilities, and graduate students separately supported by the grant. Our site visitors were Michael J. Eck, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; John M. Flanagan, Ph.D., Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Cynthia B. Peterson, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology; Marvin Stodolsky, Ph.D., from the DoE Headquarters, and Matesh Varma, Ph.D., Program Manager, Department of Energy.