JAY INGRAM

Co-host of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet

One of Canada's best-known science popularizers, Jay Ingram is co-host and producer of Daily Planet, television's first daily science show. His Jay’s Journal is a well-known regular feature of that program.

Ingram hosted CBC Radio's science program Quirks And Quarks from 1979 to 1992, earning him two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host. During the '80s, he was also Contributing Editor to Owl Magazine. He also hosted two radio documentary series, The Talk Show, about language, and Cranial Pursuits, about the brain. The Talk Show won a Science in Society Journalism Award.

He was been awarded the Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science in 1984, the 1986 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science, and the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Additionally, Ingram was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009. He holds five honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, McMaster, the University of Alberta and King’s College in Halifax, and is also a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Alberta.

Ingram has written ten books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers’ Awards. His latest is The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas -Global Warming and What People are Doing About It. He is an engaging, provocative speaker who can address complex, scientific issues in non-technical terms, making them interesting, relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences.

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COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCES

"In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks, [Ingram] manages a difficult trick—making the minutiae of science seem alluring to the uninitiated."

Maclean's

"Ingram is a wizard at transforming complex curiosities of the natural and physical sciences into entertaining anecdotes."

The Edmonton Sun

"With his trademark wit and wonderment, Ingram makes the science of our lives accessible and fascinating."

Avalon Publishing Group Inc.

"Ingram . . . acts as a kind of cross between a clear-eyed journalist and a tongue-in-cheek comedian."

The Globe and Mail