Patty Center

The Ernest N. Patty Building was built in 1963. It houses a 2,700-seat gymnasium, a 25-yard swimming pool, courts for handball and racquetball, weight rooms, a rifle range, classrooms and locker rooms with saunas. It is also home to the university's Reserve Officer Training Corps program. In 1979, a 1,300-seat ice arena was built to the east of the center. The center is named after Ernest Newton Patty, who joined the first faculty of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines as professor of geology and mining in 1922. After receiving an honorary doctorate, Patty served as president of the university.