Located in Newport News, Va., the Christopher Newport University Applied Research Center (CNU-ARC) is a state-of-the-art research laboratory supporting innovative research in the areas of advanced nanomaterials for alternative energy, green processing of metals, nondestructive evolution of metal surfaces, novel nanomaterials for environmental remediation and the emerging fields of nanotechnology in biomedical applications. The Center for Academic Success offers free assistance to all students who wish to improve and enhance their academic performance in grammar and writing or need help with other subjects in the Liberal Learning Core Curriculum. The center contains the Alice Randall Writing Center and the Tutoring Center. All writing consultants and tutors are CNU students and are trained to help CNU students. The center is open from the second week of classes through the last week of classes during fall and spring semesters. The Center for American Studies (CAS) is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to promoting enlightened leaders, responsible citizens and intellectually mature adults. CAS seeks to foster greater civic awareness by promoting classical liberal education in the area of American Studies, including America's philosophical roots, history, economic foundations and place in the wider global community. The center brings together scholars from the nation's elite institutions to emphasize intellectual engagement of, and scholarship on, the classical texts and foundational documents of the United States' constitutional republic. The Center for Community Engagement fosters a campus culture of meaningful service and social innovation to benefit the community and CNU students and faculty. The Center for Wetland Conservation fosters research, service and instruction in environmental studies at CNU. Projects typically involve collaboration with state and federal governmental and nongovernmental agencies, participation by undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, and generation of both applied and theoretical wetland knowledge.Applied Research Center
Center for Academic Success
Center for American Studies
Center for Community Engagement
Center for Wetland Conservation
Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy
The Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University was established in 2007 to help solve a growing problem in Virginia: the lack of unbiased and nonpartisan information both about important public policy issues facing Virginia and about citizens' views on those issues. Without such information, Virginia’s elected leaders face difficult decisions with little guidance from the citizens they represent.
