Students not only ones enjoying University of Iowa's alternative spring break options


	Photo by Tom Jorgensen.

Although Iowans often associate “spring break” with travels to warmer climates, many members of the University of Iowa community will be staying closer to home this year in order to participate in a Cedar Rapids flood-recovery project that will help aid those still in need of post-flood cleanup.

Other staff members will lead courses offered through UI Recreational Services, courses that involve scuba diving in Florida, mountain biking in Utah, backpacking through national and state parks, becoming acquainted with bouldering, and dancing up a storm in ballroom and Latin styles.

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Sab Babu

Sab Babu is a good guy to know during the cold Iowa winter—he can arrange a nice bicycle ride down warm, sunny streets, regardless of the weather forecast. Babu is an assistant research scientist in the University of Iowa Department of Computer Science, and he plays a primary role in the department’s virtual environment laboratory. Babu sat down with fyi to talk about what his team has learned through the bicycling simulation sessions, what he loves most about his work, and how he continues to shine on the badminton court.

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"In geeky engineering terms—and we like to speak in geeky engineering terms—this is a long, skinny, bendy thing."

David Wilder, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering
(Iowa City Press-Citizen, Feb. 23)