FMU Environmental Science and Studies:
Research and Internships
Students at Franics Marion University regularly assist faculty with their research projects as well as conduct their own independent projects. Student’s regularly present their work at campus, regional and national conferences.
Once each semester, the Department of Biology’s Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) hosts a symposium highlighting current student research. Regionally students attend the annual Association of Southeastern Biologists Meeting or the South Carolina Academy of Sciences Meeting. National meetings attended depend on the particular discipline of their faculty mentor.
Student Research
Internships
Florence, South Carolina is great place to gain practical real world environmental experience. In town are offices for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR - located right next to campus), two offices for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Clemson’s Pee Dee Research and Education Center (Pee Dee REC), the Pee Dee Land Trust, Lynches River County Park, and several state parks within 45 minutes of campus.
