Dr. Anne B. McCoy
The Ohio State University
Department of Chemistry
100 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio, 43210
Phone: (614) 292-9694
FAX: (614) 292-1685

JPC email: jpc@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
JPC Office: (614) 292-4992
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Anne McCoy received her B.S. in Chemistry from Haverford College in 1987. After graduation, she spent one year teaching chemistry at The Hotchkiss School in northwestern Connecticut before enrolling at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor McCoy received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry under Professor E. L. Sibert in 1992. Upon graduation, she took a postdoctoral position with Professor R. B. Gerber and split her time between the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of California, Irvine. She was awarded a Golda Meir postdoctoral fellowship to support her work.

In 1994, Professor McCoy joined the faculty in the chemistry department at Ohio State as an assistant professor and has risen through the ranks, being promoted to Full Professor in 2004. She is also a member of the faculty of the Chemical Physics graduate program.Professor McCoy has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the 1998 Ernst D. Bergmann Memorial Award from the US/Israel Binational Science Foundation, was named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar in 1999, and was recognized as an Outstanding Woman in Science by AWISCO in 2005. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  At Ohio State, her research has focused on theoretical studies of the spectroscopy and dynamics of weakly interacting molecules as well as understanding experimental signatures of large amplitude motions, with focus on molecules that are of interest in atmospheric or astronomical chemistry.

She organized the 2005 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (with Alec Wodtke, UCSB); the 2006 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference; and is the vice-chair of the 2007 Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions (chair of the 2009 meeting). Dr. McCoy serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Physical chemistry division of the American Chemical Society (2006-2011), and is on the Executive Committee for the Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. She is also a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Her research group includes four graduate students (Sara Ray, Samantha Horvath, Charlotte Hinkle, and Andrew Petit) and one undergraduate student (Annie Lesiak).