The Future of Skyscrapers: Can we build them? Will people come?

Some of today's most authoritative experts on engineering and architecture will examine whether skyscrapers can be built well enough to protect their inhabitants from terrorism and bio-terrorism on the upcoming edition of Technogenesis®. The show will also investigate if people are still willing to work or live in tall monumental buildings after the events of September 11.

Technogenesis is a weekly TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens), in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network. The program will feature commentary of industry experts from a recent symposium on high-rises held at Stevens, along with in-studio commentary from Stevens' president Dr. Hal Raveche and nationally renowned pollster John Zogby.

The Technogenesis program, "The Future of Skyscrapers: Can we build them? Will people come" airs at 7:00 p.m., on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays in the New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore regions: Dec. 23, Jan. 6, Jan. 20, Feb. 3 and Feb. 17. The program will also appear at various times throughout the week on the local Comcast outlets in Prince William and Fairfax counties, Va., as well as Prince George's County, Md. Please check for local listings.

John Zogby has polled for Reuters News Agency, the largest news agency in the world, and NBC News. His clients also include the New York Post, Fox News, Gannett News Service, the Albany Times Union, the Buffalo News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Cincinnati Post, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Syracuse Herald, and nearly every daily newspaper in New York state, as well as television stations throughout the United States.

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 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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