UC Berkeley Press Release

Bear talk: Halftime Radio returns for 2008 season

BERKELEY – The Golden Bear Halftime Reports are two-minute audio interviews with students, alumni, professors and administrators, each providing a personal, inside look at life at Cal. Broadcast during the radio coverage of Cal football games and available online after each game, they're hosted by Linda Schacht from the Graduate School of Journalism and produced by the UC Berkeley Office of Public Affairs

Interviews to date:

• Journalism grad student Adithya Sambamurthy, who won the Dorothea Lange Award for his photo documentary project depicting life on State Route 99, once called California's "Main Street." 12.6.2008
  
• Shelly Onstead, women's field hockey coach, was also assistant coach of the 2008 US Summer Olympics team. She talks about the fulfillment of her life-long dream of going to the Olympics, and about her parents' "mixed marriage" with loyalties to Stanford and Cal. 11.22.2008
  
• Diana Lizarraga, director of "Cal NERDS," a campus organization that brings together science students in a variety of academic and social programs, helping them "Get their Nerd On!" 11.15.2008
  
• Troy Taylor, former Cal quarterback and current broadcast radio commentator for Cal football games., tells why he chose the job at Cal and how he got the Trojan name "Troy." 11.8.2008
  
• Cal forward Theo Robertson talks about being excited to come back to basketball this season after recovering from a knee injury, working with the team's new coach, and looking forward to travelling with his teammates. 11.1.2008
  
• Robert Reich, former Labor secretary and a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, talks about leadership, the economic meltdown, and Berkeley's exceptional students. (Special 3:46 extended interview) 10.25.2008
  
• Men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery tells about coming to Berkeley from Stanford and the NBA, and about his goals for his team. 10.18.2008
  
• 2007 graduate Rachel Barge, who ran a campaign to establish a $2 million sustainability fund at UC Berkeley to reduce the university's environmental impact. 10.4.2008
  
• Chancellor Robert Birgeneau tells what he'll do first with the Carnegie Foundation's Academic Achievement award he just won, the university's major $3 billion fundraising campaign, and the start of Memorial Stadium's retrofitting plan and building the student-athlete high performance center. 9.27.2008
  
• Richard Muller, physics professor and podcast rock star, on why he loves teaching "Physics for Future Presidents," which was rated the best class on campus in a Daily Californian newspaper survey. 9.13.2008
  
• Stuart Martin, a student veteran who served in the Marines in Iraq, tells about how it's a dream come true attending Cal, the programs designed for student veterans at Cal and the new GI bill. 9.6.2008
  
• Sandy Barbour, UC Berkeley athletic director, on the Golden Bears' prospects on the the gridiron and in other sports, and on Cal athletes' performance in the Beijing Olympics. 8.30.2008
  

Archived episodes of Halftime Radio from the 2007 and 2006 weasons are available online.