A rooftop greenhouse with many species of exotic plants and space for student projects is a showpiece of the Leatherman Science Facility. Outdoor areas on and near campus provide teaching facilities for the introductory courses, upper level botany, entomology, ornithology, invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, ecology, and conservation biology. Varied environmental conditions on the 309-acre campus provide diversified field study sites for biology students. A three acre wooded area is being developed as an arboretum. Longer field trips are routinely made to the ocean, marshes, lakes, forests, and mountains of South Carolina.
Select students have the opportunity to assist faculty members in their research.
Sophisticated techniques and equipment are employed to open up the dynamic world of research.