PROJECT SUMMARY – ENRICHMENT PROGRAM The Enrichment Program promotes knowledge, the exchange of ideas, training, and education in a culture of multidisciplinary interaction, collaboration, and synergy. It serves as a forum to present and discuss diabetes research across the translational spectrum through the Annual Chicago Diabetes Day held on the University of Chicago campus in May and Diabetes & Obesity Research Day held on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus in October. These meetings provides an opportunity for investigators with Pilot and Feasibility Studies to present their findings, informs its membership of new trends, discoveries, programs, grant opportunities, and development in diabetes research. The Enrichment Program also supports the Midwest Islet Club and Diabetes Research Center leadership organizes the Kroc Lecture, the Lydia J. Roberts Lecture and the Max Miller Lecture in Diabetes Research. The Enrichment program supports training and educational opportunities for undergraduate and medical students, house-staff and postdoctoral fellows as well as for patients with diabetes. The program has been highly successful and we believe is a “crown jewel” of this Diabetes Research Center. However, we believe there is also room to improve and in the new five years will implement new initiatives in the area of diabetes and bioengineering as well as provide direct support for a diabetes seminar program at the Medical College of Wisconsin.