Our efforts are guided by our vision: "Anchored in excellence and focused on students, Christopher Newport University aspires to be the nation's premier regional public university, offering an innovative education embedded in the liberal arts that advances the values of honor, service, scholarship, and leadership to empower graduates to lead lives of significance.". We also have over $2 million in chemical instrumentation, including modern spectroscopy instruments, a high-resolution LC-MS, a 400 MHz NMR, GC-MS, HPLC, ICP-OES, DSC, spectrofluorophotometer temperature-controlled cell, confocal microscopy, a scanning electron microscope (SEM), real-time thermocycler, and a variety of molecular biology equipment, as well as a vivarium.