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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’s Research Computing Systems. It opened in 1988.

John Butrovich was raised in Fairbanks. In 1944, he was elected to the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Territorial Senate and served there for 34 years. During his years as senator, he was at the forefront of the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø statehood 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Senate and was Senate president from 1967-68. When he retired in 1978, he was elected an honorary member of the House of Representatives. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø granted him an honorary doctor of law degree in 1980.