Core Facilities

A well-equipped environment

Studying biology at a university situated amongst one of the most diverse ecosystems in Texas is a natural choice. But SFA's resources are not limited to the habitats surrounding it. The university is equipped with millions of dollars of high-tech equipment.

As a biology student at SFA, you’ll have access to multiple resources and equipment, including:

• A tissue culture facility
• Transmission and scanning electron microscopes
• A 4-bay, 665-square-meter greenhouse, plus other campus facilities at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center
• The ASTC Herbarium, which is home to more than 79,000 plant specimens from across North America, making it the fourth-largest collection in Texas
• Vertebrate teaching collections with specimens representing hundreds of species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
• The Gibson Entomarium, which houses one of the largest collections of invertebrates in Texas
• Three national forests near campus (more than 250,000 hectares of federally managed habitat for field studies)