Who We Are and What We Do

Erskine's Daniel Moultrie Science Center

Erskine Biology, housed in a new multi-million dollar Science Center, is one of only three South Carolina institutions honored by inclusion in Peterson's Guide to Top Science Programs. Our long-recognized and successful programs in pre-medicine and other health fields are complemented by growing emphases in molecular and environmental biology.

The Biology Department's faculty and students are engaged in an educational partnership, pursuing the common goal of our graduates' personal and professional success, and guided by a fundamental educational philosophy. Our students benefit from a diversity of opportunities on and off campus:

• flexible curriculum and degree options, including a Winter Term;
• small class size;
• laboratory investigations taught by faculty and staff (not TAs);
• field and wildlife studies;
• research opportunities;
• a January pre-professional externship program; and
• an award-winning chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the national life-science honor society.

Together, these elements of the "Erskine Biology Experience" allow our students to achieve success in a diversity of career and post-graduate educational fields. The EC Bio educational experience promotes creativity, inquisitiveness, abstract and analytical thinking, and effective communication, all of which are critical skills in today's competitive graduate-education and career fields.