Butrovich Building
2025 Yukon Drive
UAF photos by Sierra Coley
The 93,000-square-foot John Butrovich Building houses the , the Office of Information Technology and UA's high-performance computing clusters operated by the Geophysical Institute鈥檚 Research Computing Systems. It opened in 1988.
John Butrovich was raised in Fairbanks. In 1944, he was elected to the 黑料社appTerritorial Senate and served there for 34 years. During his years as senator, he was at the forefront of the 黑料社appstatehood movement and pivotal in the development and maturation of the state. Butrovich, a Republican, was speaker of the delegation sent to the White House to persuade President Eisenhower to sign the statehood bill. He served on every committee of the 黑料社appSenate and was Senate president from 1967-68. When he retired in 1978, he was elected an honorary member of the House of Representatives. UAF granted him an honorary doctor of law degree in 1980.