{"56304":{"#nid":"56304","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Pete Ludovice Pursues Dream of Being a Comedian","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Peter J. \u0022Pete\u0022 Ludovice was a graduate student in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there was a special name for women on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We called them visitors,\u0022 he deadpans. An associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, Ludovice\u0027s irreverent observational humor has been his trademark among students for the past dozen years. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the past two years, he has sought a wider audience for his \u0022nerd comedy\u0022 as a stand-up comic at nightclubs and corporate meetings. This second career has earned the professor a special name of his own: Dr. Ludicrous, a stage name purportedly bestowed by students over unrealistic expectations on a statistics test. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Teaching and comedy go hand in hand,\u0022 Ludovice explains. \u0022I like to teach, and I think anyone who enjoys teaching is probably also a natural-born ham.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt also could be argued that anyone who devotes research time to computer simulation to elucidate the relationship between atomic level structure and the properties of synthetic and biological macromolecules, as Ludovice does, needs a good laugh now and then. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELudovice\u0027s dozens of performances include headlining at annual meetings of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and stints at clubs throughout the Southeast, including the Punchline in Sandy Springs, Ga. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of Ludovice\u0027s best-known routines is called \u0022Pocket Protectors and Other Fashion Statements\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dr. Ludicrous is Born (Originally published in the GT Alumni Magazine - Spring 2006)"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"When Peter J. \u0022Pete\u0022 Ludovice was a graduate student in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there was a special name for women on campus. \u0022We called them visitors,\u0022 he deadpans. An associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, Ludovice\u0027s irreverent observational humor has been his trademark among students for the past dozen years. \n\nOver the past two years, he has sought a wider audience for his \u0022nerd comedy\u0022 as a stand-up comic at nightclubs and corporate meetings.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Pete Ludovice pursues dream of being a comedian"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2006-07-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:01","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56305":{"id":"56305","type":"image","title":"Dr. Pete Ludovice as Dr. Ludicrous","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894499","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:39","alt":"Dr. Pete Ludovice as Dr. Ludicrous","file":{"fid":"190442","name":"ton03599.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ton03599_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ton03599_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17261,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ton03599_0.jpg?itok=6Zr-VWL7"}}},"media_ids":["56305"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/fac_staff\/faculty\/ludovice.php","title":"Dr. Ludovice\u0027s home page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9461","name":"Chemical and Biolmolecular Engineering"},{"id":"9460","name":"Dr. Ludicrous"},{"id":"9459","name":"Dr. Ludovice"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJosie Giles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jg234\u0022\u003EContact Josie Giles\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2299\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josie.giles@chbe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}