{"600913":{"#nid":"600913","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lew Lefton featured on external news","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStory Collider: Part 1 -\u0026nbsp;Lew Lefton tries to succeed as both a math professor and a math comedian\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELew Lefton is a faculty member in the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics and the Assistant Dean of Information Technology for the Georgia Tech College of Sciences. \u0026nbsp;He also has the role of Assistant Vice President for Research Cyberinfrastructure at Georgia Tech. Lefton co-founded and is the acting executive director of Decatur Makers, a family-friendly makerspace in downtown Decatur. \u0026nbsp;He is on the board of the Southeast Makers Alliance and has been involved as a co-producer of Maker Faire Atlanta since 2014. Lefton has a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science from New Mexico Tech, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois. He moved to Decatur in 1999. \u0026nbsp;Lefton is also an accomplished and experienced comedian who has done stand up and improv comedy for more than 30 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExternal News:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.storycollider.org\/stories\/2018\/1\/5\/math-problems-stories-about-math\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.storycollider.org\/stories\/2018\/1\/5\/math-problems-stories-about-math\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Story Collider: Lew Lefton tries to succeed as both a math professor and a math comedian"}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2018-01-16 20:14:35","changed_gmt":"2018-01-16 20:14:35","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600606":{"id":"600606","type":"image","title":"Lew Lefton","body":null,"created":"1515537811","gmt_created":"2018-01-09 22:43:31","changed":"1515537811","gmt_changed":"2018-01-09 22:43:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228954","name":"Lew Lefton StoryCollider.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lew%20Lefton%20StoryCollider.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lew%20Lefton%20StoryCollider.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":202513,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lew%20Lefton%20StoryCollider.jpg?itok=nSipdf8r"}}},"media_ids":["600606"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.storycollider.org\/stories\/2018\/1\/5\/math-problems-stories-about-math","title":"Full story"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}