(Clockwise from top left) USC President Carol Folt, Dwight J. “Jim” Baum, chair of USC Viterbi’s Board of Councilors, Catherine Quinlan, dean of the USC Libraries and USC Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos at the Baum Family Maker Space’s ribbon cutting ceremony. (Photo/Courtesy of Yannis Yortsos)
On Thursday, Jan. 28, USC leaders, faculty, friends and even the Trojan Marching Band gathered remotely for a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Baum Family Maker Space, which will serve as a new hub for undergraduate student innovation. In the 30-minute celebration, speakers called the new space the very embodiment of student hands-on learning, increasingly a feature of the nation’s best engineering schools.
“This is the kind of space that makes us all wish we were back in college,” USC President Carol Folt said. “It will make engineering practicable and real and be a cutting-edge home…
