Hampton University is pursuing research and scholarships that enrich, inform, and influence classroom teaching; our achievements continue to gain national and international recognition. Groundbreaking research is underway in labs across campus, focused on producing technology and innovation that will help drive tomorrow's discoveries. With advancing programs in the sciences, engineering, health, computing, architecture, the community and related areas, Hampton University is committed to educating future leaders.

Some programs being conducted by or in corporation with the University include:

• Proton Beam Therapy - Proton therapy is a cancer treatment that is able to target tumors directly while leaving healthy tissue unharmed. Scheduled to open in 2010, the sixth and largest proton cancer treatment center in the nation is being built by Hampton University. The center will be the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI).
• Calipsovalidation - CALIPSO is a collaboration between NASA Langley Research CENTER (LaRC), the French space agency CNES, Hampton University, the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The primary roles and contributions of these partners can be found at http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/. This mission is part of NASA. As part of NASA's Earth System Enterprise, this is a series of missions designed to examine critical issues in Earth system science.
• COSM- The Center for the study of the Origin and Structure of Matter (COSM) is one of four Physics Frontier Centers established in 2001 by the National Science Foundation and the only one to be located at an historically black university. The mission of COSM is to conduct further research into the nature of matter through development of detectors, software, and simulations for nuclear and particle physics, and through a program of experimentation, education, and outreach.