Classicist Segal wins fellowship, serves as visiting professor Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, has been busy.

He was awarded a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center for 1997-98. Segal is working on a book-length analysis of Ovid's conception of the body and the self in the "Metamorphoses."

In February, Segal served as the Breckenridge Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He gave two public lectures and taught graduate and undergraduate classes.

Last month, Segal gave the opening lecture at a conference on "Interdisciplinarity and the Classics" at the University of Georgia at Athens.

Psychologist Hood selected as Sloan Research Fellow Bruce M. Hood, associate professor of psychology, has been selected for a Sloan Research Fellowship in the field of neuroscience. His areas of interest are visual and cognitive development in human infants. Currently, he is studying whether 3-month-old babies can recognize the direction of eye gaze.

Graduate student wins student paper competition

Emma Teng, a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian languages and civilizations, was named the winner in the graduate division of the 1997 Student Paper Competition of the National Association for Ethnic Studies. Her manuscript, "The Chinese Lover and the White Woman: Miscegenation and the Critique of Patriarchy in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction," won a $200 prize and consideration for publication in the Association's journal, Ethnic Studies Review.

The subject of Teng's dissertation is colonial Chinese travel literature in Taiwan.

Teng teaches Asian-American history and women's studies at M.I.T. and will join the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at M.I.T. next fall.

Kijewski's radiology project wins $1.5 million NIH grant

Marie Kijewski, a physicist in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant for nearly $1.5 million for a five-year project on the physical limits of quantitative SPECT. The project extends previous work on evaluation of scatter- and attenuation-correction methods using task-dependent criteria to more complex models incorporating realistic anatomy. The imaging tasks on which performance measures are based include clinical classification tasks related to Alzheimer's disease as well as mathematically modeled estimation tasks. Collaborators on the project are Stephen Moore, Robert Zimmerman, Stefan Mueller, Keith Johnson, Frank Rybicki, and B. Leonard Holman.