I was born on March 14, 1959 in Wabash,
Indiana (USA) to David Clement McCormick and Lorraine Junette
Munger McCormick. I graduated from Hammond High School (Hammond,
Louisiana) in 1976. In 1980 I graduated with a B.A. in Biology
from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. After working
for a year as a technician in a cytogenetics lab at the University
of Minnesota, I moved to Massachusetts and ran the mammalian tissue
culture facility of Integrated Genetics, Inc., a start-up genetic
engineering company located in Framingham. From1984-1988 I worked
with Jay Hirsh, Ph.D., in the Biological Chemistry Department
of Harvard University on the Dopa Decarboxylase gene in Drosophila
melanogaster. In 1988, I was a summer intern at Bowman's
Hill Wildflower Preserve in Pennsylvania, then joined the staff
of the Preserve for several years. In 1991 I began a long association
with the North Carolina Botanical Garden, first to inventory several
natural areas managed by the Garden, then as part-time database
manager. From 1996-2000 I was secretarial support to Dr. Robert
Peet, the editor of Ecology and Ecological
Monographs, and data entry technician for the
Carolina Vegetation Survey .
In August, 2000, upon the retirement of
Dr. Jimmy Massey and Ms. Mary Felton (Curator and Assistant Curator,
respectively), I became the Assistant Curator of the University
of North Carolina Herbarium . This coincided with the administrative
transfer of the Herbarium from the Biology Department to the North
Carolina Botanical Garden.
I am the two-time defending champion of
the University of North Carolina Biology Department Cheese Cake
Contest, and winner of the 1990 Howell Living History Farm Draft
Horse Plowing Contest (Novice Division).
Since joining the Herbarium, I have taken
an interest in botanizing Alamance County, North Carolina. My
co-collectors are my husband, Mark Peifer, and our daughters,
Rose Peifer (born in 1993) and Lily McCormick (born in 1997).
We live on 35 acres of land that is near the confluence of the
Haw River and Cane Creek in Alamance County.
PUBLICATIONS
McCormick, Carol Ann (2006) Ice flowers:
a winter treat for early morning hikers. The Chapel Hill News,
issue of Sunday, November 26, 2006.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2006) One flower
you'll never find in an herbarium [natural history of ice flowers].
North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, November-December
2006 issue, page 9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2006) Go native with
coral honeysuckle. The Chapel Hill News, issue of Sunday, April
30, 2006.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2006) King of the algal realm [Dr. Max Hommersand].
North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, March-April 2006 issue,
page 13.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2006) In service to nature… and music
[Arundo donax and woodwind reeds]. North Carolina
Botanical Garden Newsletter, January-February 2006 issue, page
9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2005) Another roadside attraction [Platanthera
ciliaris records in Orange Co., NC]. North Carolina Botanical
Garden Newsletter, November-December 2005, page 9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2005) Wool-gathering in the Herbarium [South
Carolina wool mill botanical specimens]. North Carolina Botanical
Garden Newsletter, September-October issue, page 9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2005) Collector Chronicles, Part I [information
on Wolfgang Wolf, R. Haven Wiley, Claire Newell, and Sadie Price].
North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, May-June issue, page
9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2005) The Charles T. Mohr Herbarium Internship.
North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, March-April 2005 issue,
page 9.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2003) Sleuthing in the UNC Herbarium [Amsonia
ludoviciana records in the UNC Herbarium and re-introduction
of the plant to Mississippi]. North Carolina Botanical Garden
Newsletter, September-October 2003.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2002) Carl Sandburg, The Confederate States
of America, and the UNC Herbarium [collections of Edward Read
Memminger]. North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, September-October
2002 issue.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2002) An orchid by any other name [herbarium
annotations and Spiranthes eatonii]. North Carolina Botanical
Garden Newsletter, January-February 2002 issue.
McCormick, Carol Ann (2001) The art and science of preserving
plants [herbarium labels]. North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter,
September-October 2001 issue.
White, Peter S., Tom Condon, Janet Rock, Carol Ann McCormick,
Pat Beaty, and Keith Langdon (1996) Wildflowers of the Smokies.
Great Smoky Mountains Association, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Casanova, J., M. Furriols, C.A. McCormick, G. Struhl (1995) Similarities
between trunk and spatzle, putative extracellular ligands specifying
body pattern in Drosophila. Genes & Development
9(20): 2439-2544.
McCormick, Carol Ann and Peter S. White (1993) Conservation project:
the Nature Trail Area, Coker Pinetum, and Stillhouse Bottom Nature
Preserve: final report. North Carolina Botanical Garden, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cox, Rachel T., Li-Mei Pai, Jeffrey R. Miller, Sandra Orsulic,
Joel Stein, Carol Ann McCormick, Yara Audeh, Wei Wang, Randall
T. Moon, and Mark Peifer (1999) Membrane-tethered Drosophila
Armadillo cannot transduce Wingless signal on its own. Development
126: 1327-1335.
Johnson, Wayne A., Carol Ann. McCormick,
Sarah Jane Bray, and Jay Hirsh (1989) A neuron-specific enhancer
of the Drosophila Dopa Decarboxylase gene. Genes
& Development 3(5): 676-686.
Scholnick, S. B., Bray, S. J., Morgan, B. A., McCormick, C.A.,
and Hirsh, J. (1986) CNS and hypoderm regulatory elements of the
Drosophila melanogaster Dopa Decarboxylase gene.
Science 234 (4779): 998-1002.
