Joseph Ganem

Physicist

Joseph W. Ganem, Ph.D. is a professor of physics at Loyola University Maryland and an award-winning writer on science, education, and consumer issues.

Recent Books

• The Robot Factory: Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy
• Understanding the Impact of Machine Learning on Labor and Education: A Time- Dependent Turing Test

Commentaries

• Why are we wasting time and money on education when so many choose willful ignorance anyway?(Op-ed)
• Md. school rating system useless 'pseudoscience'(Op-ed)
• America's Love–Hate Relationship with Science (Op-ed)
• Expectations — great and small — are killing our kids' education(Op-ed)
• It's time to rethink the purpose of standardized tests(Op-ed)
• Instead of a lockbox for Md. education funds, how about one for legislators' salaries?(Op-ed)
• Science in the self interest(Op-ed)
• The Common Core can't speed up child development(Op-ed)
• Your privacy, their profits(Op-ed)

Invited Talks

• (Upcoming) Solving the Problem of Low-Enrolled Physics Courses with Hybrid Teaching, AAPT Winter Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 7, 2024.
• Energy Transfer in Solid-State Optical Materials, Department of Physics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, March 2, 2020.
• Why I Would Fail Third Grade Math, Senior Science Society, Harford County Community College, Bel Air, MD, February 17, 2020
• (Panelist) What do we expect to happen in schools and how do we ensure that this actually happens?, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC, January 8, 2020
• The Robot Factory, 14 West Hamilton Street Club, Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 2018.
• Seeing the Light: A brief history of our understanding of light leading to the invention of the laser, (Roland Park Women's Club, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 17, 2016)