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Jay Ingram's Biography

Renowned science broadcaster and writer Jay Ingram is co-host and producer of Daily Planet, television's first daily science magazine (formerly titled @discovery.ca). Ingram joined Discovery Channel in November 1994 and was instrumental in helping shape the program format.

Ingram has an extensive background in radio, television and publishing prior to joining Discovery Channel. From September 1979 to January 1992, Ingram hosted CBC Radio's science program Quirks And Quarks. During that time, he earned two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host. In 1993, he hosted The Talk Show, a CBC Radio series about language, which won a Science in Society Journalism Award. During the 1980s, Ingram was also Contributing Editor to Owl Magazine. In the 1990s he wrote a weekly science column for the Toronto Star.

Ingram has won awards for what he does best - bringing science to the mainstream. In 1984, Ingram was awarded the Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science. He also earned the 1997 Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science. In 2000, Jay was awarded a Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Ingram earned a Masters Degree in microbiology at the University of Toronto. He also holds four honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, McMaster University and King's College, and is a distinguished alumnus of the University of Alberta.

Ingram has written ten books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers' Awards.