GIVING PRIORITIES Facilities & Infrastructure   Laboratory Equipment Tutor Hall Courtyard Tutor Hall Cafe Bloom Walk Benches Classroom Technology Engineering Quad Dean's Boardroom Viterbi Museum

The 2005 opening of Ronald Tutor Hall instantly brought a great wave of energy to our School. With a vibrant new student center, private study rooms, a busy courtyard and cafe, it has quickly become the new heart of the Viterbi School — a communal hub for all kinds of social and academic activities.

 

USC has a time-honored tradition of acknowledging donor support throughout our campus. For a limited time, a once-in-a-generation opportunity exists to permanently link your name with the Viterbi School’s new home. Certain pledges can be honored with named rooms and benches in and around Tutor Hall.

BAUM

STUDENT CENTER

Opening its doors in Ronald Tutor Hall in 2005 to great waves of enthusiasm by students, faculty and visitors, the Baum Student Center became an immediate and popular hub. Dwight C. “Jim” Baum, chairman of the Viterbi School Board of Councilors, whose father, the late Dwight C. “Bill” Baum, first proposed the idea of a student center, helped to fulfill the dream. The Baum family’s gift created a student lounge that welcomes students to “come together to relax, to socialize, to grab a bite, plug in their laptops and, most importantly, become a community,” Jim Baum says.

 

Since opening, the Baum Student Center has become a center of interactive study, meeting and “hanging out” for students. It has made a significant impact for engineering undergraduate students by providing a comfortable environment in which to do some leisurely or last minute studying or to meet for group projects.

 

Jim Baum and his family truly understood the significant impact they could make by making a gift toward facilities and infrastructure. “We have no idea what is going to happen ten, twenty years down the road. That is why it was so important to provide these labs and facilities, the project areas and study rooms, for both the students, graduate students and the faculty. It will help them to go where they have to go in the future and make Viterbi an even more attractive destination,” says Jim. 

When I was a student at USC my buddies and I would dream about seeing our name on a room or building on campus. I am so proud to be the first of my friends to be able to accomplish it. I know that future engineering students will be learning valuable skills in the Lopopolo Study Room in Tutor Hall.

Jerry Lopopolo (BSEE ’89, MSEE ’93)

 

is honoring his family’s commitment to USC and the Viterbi School with a gift that will be recognized with a named bench on Bloom Walk.