Raymond Hardie comes from a small fishing town in Northern Ireland, (which boasts the country’s oldest pub established in 1610).  He is a U-Conn graduate (can you spell basketball?). He was senior editor of Stanford magazine for six years and Editor of the Special Centennial Edition of Stanford Magazine--a 304-page magazine celebrating the achievements of over 600 alumni. He launched the new UC San Diego alumni magazine @UCSD in 2004. Hardie started his career as an actor, and spent six years at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, as well as stints on and off Broadway. He has had two novels published, Fleet (in London) and Abyssos (Tor books, New York). BBC Television has purchased seven of his television scripts and he has also sold two film scripts. He won a CASE medal for his article "Drugs Unchained" in Stanford Magazine and has had articles published in, among others, SpaceFlight (the journal of the British Interplanetary Society), the US-China Review, the Irish Times and the Irish Independent.  He has most recently written a Musicdrama with the singer/composer Joe Jackson.

@UCSD varies from 56 to 60 pages in length and has a circulation of 118,000 (adding an additional 5,000 new alumni each year). The magazine covers both alumni and the University. It is intended to give a sense of the scope and depth of University research and successes, as well as the life of current students. It also reflects the lives of Alumni with its Classnotes and On-The-Job Features.

We welcome letters, Classnotes and suggestions for features.