The department offers excellent facilities for the undergraduate student. Located on the second floor of the McNair Science Building and the Leatherman Science Facility, the department has several large lecture halls, all of which have the most up-to-date multimedia equipment: a computer-augmented instructional system with overhead projection, VCR/DVD player, and camera/microvideo capacity.

There are also nine teaching laboratories, several research labs, a large seminar room, an honors classroom, prep rooms, and faculty offices. A student computer lab is available for use in research and course work. 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. Equipment available for teaching and research includes the following:

Cell and molecular biology, microbiology, immunology:

• fluorescence microscope
• microplate reader
• inverted tissue culture microscope
• dark field and phase contrast microscopes
• anaerobic microbiology equipment
• digital photomicrography equipment
• photomicrography image analysis software
• UV spectrophotometer
• conventional and cryostat microtomes
• refrigerated centrifugation/cytobucket preparation
• clinical centrifuges
• IEP-agar and SDS-PAGE electrophoresis systems
• submarine protein/DNA electrophoresis systems
• Gamma counter
• Beta counter/liquid scintillation system
• Thermal cycler for polymerase chain reaction
• DNA sequencing gel rig
• pH meters and pH microelectrodes
• fermentation and distillation equipment for fuel ethanol production 

Organismal biology and ecology:

• environmental chambers
• passive integrated transponder (PIT-tagging) system for field studies of reptiles and amphibians
• GIS analysis software
• radiotelemetry equipment
• oxygen and carbon dioxide gas analyzers for metabolic studies
• EKG, heart rate and ventilation monitors
• YSI oxygen meter/thermistor for field use
• current meters for aquatic/stream studies
• Vernier water quality probes (dissolved oxygen, nitrates, pH, temperature, turbidity) and computer analysis interface/software
• live traps for turtles, snakes, and mammals
• bat detector (ultrasound converter)

Additional research and instructional equipment is in the process of acquisition.