Campus Resources for Biology Students

• The Biological and Environmental Sciences Library, located in the Biological Sciences Building, houses over 1600 serials and 180,000 books with computerized database searching;
• The Academic Resources Center provides tutoring, skills assesments and special services to help students succeed in courses:
• The Duke Forest provides over 8,500 acres of evergreen and deciduous woodland for teaching and research in the Durham area;
• The Plant Teaching and Research Facility include a tropical conservatory, desert room, economic collection, and rooms devoted to ferns, epiphytes, and aquatic plants;
• The Duke Herbarium features over 700,000 specimens for research and training;
• A vertebrate collection includes specimens of more than 20,000 birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fish;
• The Duke Lemur Center houses the world's largest living collection of endangered prosimian primates (lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers);
• Duke Natural History Society
• Shared microscopy facilities include transmission and scanning electron microscopes, ultramicrotomes, and a confocal microscope suite;