Top to Bottom: Expanding Our Nation's Ports and Waterways

Are America's ports and waterways too crowded, obsolete and shallow? Can we support both industrial and recreational use simultaneously in our nation's vital waterways without losing our economy's competitive edge?

Explore these issues, potential solutions and the environmental impacts associated with the proposed solutions this Sunday on Technogenesis®, a TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

Featured guests include Dr. Michael Bruno, professor and director of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens (www.stevens.edu/engineering/cms), and Frank McDonough, executive director of Nation'sPort (nationsport.org).

The Technogenesis program, "Top to Bottom: Expanding Our Nation's Ports and Waterways" airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays: July 22, Aug. 5, Aug. 19, Sept. 2. Check local cable listings for cn8 in your area.

Dr. Bruno is professor of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering and has directed Stevens' renowned Davidson Laboratory for 13 years. His research and teaching interests include coastal ocean dynamics, shoreline erosion, and ocean water quality. He is the author of more than 70 technical publications in various aspects of the field.

Frank McDonough is the executive director of Nation'sPort, a bi-state coalition of business, labor, government and community leaders who support strategic investment in the Port of New York and New Jersey and protection and restoration of the harbor's natural resources. Prior to Nation'sPort, McDonough served as New Jersey's first Director of Maritime Resources.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today. Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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