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Coordination chemistry and spectroscopy of transition metals and heavy p-block metals. Reaction of transition metal complexes with ozone. Application of inorganic chemistry to environmental and biological systems.

Dr. McCormick was born in Watertown, NY and grew up in a small village in New York's rural North Country. He attended Saint Lawrence University and received his B. S. in Chemistry summa cum laude. From Saint Lawrence he went to Stanford University for his Ph. D. in chemistry, which he completed in 1991 under the mentorship of Professor Edward Solomon. After receiving his Ph. D., Dr. McCormick was a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley under Professor Kenneth N. Raymond and a Humboldt fellow at the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, Germany with Professor Dr. Karl Wieghardt. Dr. McCormick has also worked at the University of Kansas as a staff scientist and assistant to Professor Daryle H. Busch on a Kansas-wide National Science Foundation EPSCoR project. He joined the faculty of Truman State University in 1999. Dr. McCormick enjoys outdoor activities such as camping, hiking and canoeing and is active in Scouting with his sons. He has been known to hunt rocks, although he finds setting out the decoys to be a bit boring. He does, however, enjoy training young rock hounds.