USC Gets $2-Million Gift for New Building
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LOS ANGELES — A University of Southern California graduate and his wife have donated $2 million to help build a new engineering and multimedia building on the inner-city campus, the university announced Monday.
Mark Stevens, an Atherton venture capitalist, earmarked the gift to be used toward construction of the proposed Ronald N. Tutor Hall, a four-story building that will house classrooms, labs, a multimedia center and a cyber cafe.
A floor in the building will be named in honor of Stevens and his wife, Mary, the university said.
“I did well by the school and I wanted to give something back,” said Stevens, who graduated from USC in 1981 with electrical engineering and economics degrees, and later earned a master’s in computer engineering.
Stevens’ gift follows two others made toward the proposed 84,000-square-foot building, which is slated for construction next summer. In 1997, Ronald N. Tutor, the chief executive of a contracting company, gave the university $10 million; earlier this month, Dwight C. “Bill” Baum, a San Marino investment banker, donated $2.5 million for the building.
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