Dr. Thomas R. Saving, professor of Economics at Texas A&M University and a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, will discuss "Social Security Reform: Tradeoffs and Costs" at a special lecture on Wednesday, March 2 at 3:00 PM in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History auditorium on the UNLV campus. The lecture, presented by UNLV's College of Business, is free and open to the public.

A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, Saving is also Director of the university's Private Enterprise Research Center. Dr. Saving's research has covered the areas of antitrust economics, monetary economics, health economics, the theory of the banking firm and the general theory of the firm and markets. His current research emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving pressing issues in health care and Social Security. In 2000, President Clinton appointed Dr. Saving as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. In 2001, President Bush named Dr. Saving to the bipartisan President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.