Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Steve
Corcelli

Concentration 

Chemistry

Award Year 

1996
Theoretical Chemical Physics and the effects of quantum mechanics on the theory of instantaneous normal modes (INMs)

I am exceedingly grateful to have been honored with a Royce Fellowship while I was an undergraduate at Brown University. The Royce Fellowship provided me the opportunity to be exposed to research that profoundly influenced the direction of my entire career. It is a tremendously valuable program for the Brown community, and I sincerely thank Charles Royce for his generosity in endowing such a unique opportunity.

Steven Corcelli graduated from Brown in 1997 and subsequently received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University. He is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Notre Dame. Corcelli uses theoretical and computational chemistry to understand the behavior of water in contact with DNA, which has implications for how DNA is recognized by drug molecules and repaired by proteins. He has been awarded a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2005), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009) for his research.