Joel_Hardy

Joel Hardy

355 Woodhaven Dr.

Vacaville, CA 95687

(707) 451-1946

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joelhardyscientist

Comments from 2016:

Was laid off from Bio-Rad in 2014 after 25 years there. Started working part time from home as an R&D consultant for a new biotechnology company. Unfortunately my wife of 40 years passed away from a cancer last year, but my being at home made it possible for me to give her the care she needed before her passing. Was recently rehired full-time by Bio-Rad Laboratories. Now have 14 grandchildren. My daughter and her husband with their 7 kids are living with me now so things are noisy and active. Life's challenges and blessings keep coming in.

Comments from 2011:

All children married and out of the house. Went from 1 grandkid to 10 in 10 years. Still married to the smartest woman in the world. Still working at Bio-Rad laboratories as a Senior R&D scientist, going on 22 years now. Probably can't retire for at least another 10 years.

Comments from 2001:

In the past ten years I have gotten a little slower, a little wider, some gray hairs (my teenage daughter's name is on every one of them), and I became a grandpa. My oldest son Tom and His wife Amy had a boy named Zachery last year. My other son, Lucas, has graduated from High School and will be going on a mission for the LDS Church this year. I still work as a Sr. Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Labs here in California. My wife Vicki, works at the local library. We keep busy with our work, church responsibilities, kids, and now a grand kid. Good luck to all of us in the next ten years!

Comments from 1991:

Following graduation from Ogden High, I attended Weber State where I graduated with a Bachelors degree in microbiology in 1977. From 1972 to 1973, I served a mission for the LDS church in Austria. In 1974, I married Vicki Lynn Nickens (OHS68) and our first son, Tom, was born in 1976. We then moved to Idaho, where from 1977 to 1979, I earned a Master of Science degree in microbiology at Idaho State University. We then moved to California, where I worked as a chemist for a Firestone Rubber Company; as a microbiologist for an oyster growing company; and as a part-time biology and chemistry instructor for a community college in Salinas. We then moved back to Utah in 1982 where I worked as a research specialist on the artificial heart program for the University of Utah until 1984. From 1984 to 1989, I worked as a Sr. research specialist for Gull Laboratories in Salt Lake City, developing diagnostic assays and instruments for infectious diseases. Our twins, Luke and Janna, were born in 1983. Janna passed away from SIDS at 5 weeks. Our last one is a girl, Jonica, born in 1985. We now live in Vacaville, California, where I have been working as a research scientist for Bio-Rad Laboratories since 1989, developing diagnostic tests used in clinical labs.