STANFORD PROFESSOR TO SPEAK AT ODU ECONOMICS CLUB LUNCHEON TODAY

Daniel P. Kessler, professor of business at Stanford University and senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, will be the featured speaker at the Old Dominion University Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon Wednesday, March 14.

Co-sponsored by Old Dominion's College of Business and Public Administration, the luncheon will begin at noon at the Norfolk Marriott Waterside Hotel. The cost is $30 for nonmembers. Due to limited space, reservations are required and may be made by calling 683-4058.

Kessler is the co-author of "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System" with John F. Cogan of the Hoover Institution and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University. The book proposes steps that the authors say could save as much as $60 billion a year and extend coverage to 20 million people who are currently uninsured.

The 2006-07 edition of the luncheon series will conclude Wednesday, April 27, with a talk by Benedict Schwegler Jr., vice president and chief scientist of Walt Disney Imagineering, Research and Development Inc.