Swagler performs for Jazz at Holmes Series Feb. 4

Saxophonist Jason Swagler opens the spring Jazz at Holmes Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4. The series, which was launched in 1996, features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in Holmes Lounge — a casual, coffeehouse-style setting — most Thursday evenings throughout the fall and spring semesters. 

Teitelbaum receives MERIT award to extend research

Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D., has been awarded a $1.71 million MERIT award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Creativity at the World Economic Forum

Creativity at the World Economic Forum? That may seem like a bit of stretch. But according to Keith Sawyer, PhD, associate professor of education and of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, the two go hand-in-hand. Sawyer moderated two sessions at last month’s forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Livable Lives Initiative awards eight grants

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Livable Lives Initiative has awarded eight grants to faculty across the university. The selected projects investigate policies and programs designed to help those with low or moderate incomes achieve lives that are more stable, secure, satisfying and successful.

Petite produce

Tiny pumpkins and other produce are part of the Sixth Annual School of Medicine Student, Faculty and Staff Art Show at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Poet Jane Miller reads for Writing Program Feb. 4

The Boston Book Review once compared Jane Miller’s careening, associative verse to the painting of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns: inventive, energetic and risky. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, the celebrated poet will read from her work for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ spring Reading Series.

Black Anthology at Edison Theatre Feb. 5 and 6

Black Anthology, in its 21st year as a student-run performance arts show celebrating black culture, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5 and 6, in Edison Theatre. The show is held every year in February as a celebration of Black History Month.

Adhering to new government dietary guidelines may require changing habits

Are you looking to make the government’s new dietary recommendations part of your life? Begin by writing down what you eat, says Connie Diekman, director of University Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. The U.S. departments of Agriculture and Health & Human Services this week released new food guidelines that call for more fruits and vegetables, less sodium and more whole grain.