A Cornell conversation about craft, reading, identity, and gratitude.
The episode follows Manuel Munoz through a writing life shaped by classes, teachers, reading, Cornell, and a period in New York publishing before academia.

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Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians will give you an inside look into the lives of some of our most notable young Cornellians. Learn who they are and what role Cornell University played in their professional and personal lives. Communicator Award of Excellence winner 2020. Created and produced by Amanda Massa.Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13.Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cornell alumni turn institutional memory into lived education through detailed conversations about learning, cultural action, service, and creative formation.
Fresh from the Hill moves between alumni conversations, campus history talks, and special programs, using Cornell as a vantage point on how people learn from an institution and one another.
A pumpkin on Cornell's clock tower is your cue that campus memory can get wonderfully specific.
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A Cornell conversation about craft, reading, identity, and gratitude.
The episode follows Manuel Munoz through a writing life shaped by classes, teachers, reading, Cornell, and a period in New York publishing before academia.
A warm alumni-community look at how volunteering becomes a lasting habit.
Fresh from the Hill treats Cornell alumni volunteerism as something lived, not merely celebrated. Julie Voltaggio guides the piece with reunion energy and an eye for how alumni life stretches across places like Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
A protest story that turns campus memory into something immediate, detailed, and human.
This piece traces the Day Hall Takeover through Ketty Esquivel's memory of arriving at Cornell in the summer of 1993 at age 17, still very much a baby freshman.
Cornell Halloween lore with haunted history, trivia, and a loose story-first pace.
This Cornell Halloween edition of Cornelliana with Corey features Corey Earle, class of 2007, in a live talk originally broadcast on October 26, 2021.
A deadpan interview about a bathroom monitor, CPR timing, and a parking-lot therapy routine.
This episode turns a modest civic premise into a dry, steady conversation, using a bathroom monitor and hand-washing timer to open into CPR timing, airport CPR training, and the small routines people build around bodily embarrassment and public duty.


Fake bone lore, delivered with crisp confidence.

Fake facts, real pedantry, escalating nonsense.

Real animal science, told with zero decorum.

One fast, dry voice turning gripes into rules.

Comic-book talk and political fury, same breath.
The hosts welcome Manuel Muñoz as a Cornell MFA alum, novelist, short story writer, and recent recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
Julie Voltaggio opens the show.
Joseph brings Ketty Esquivel back to Fresh from the Hill for the SELA series.
Corey Ryan Earle opens a Halloween Cornell history talk on a gray, rainy evening in Ithaca.
Lauren opens with a brisk welcome.
A Halloween-themed episode exploring spooky stories and haunted history of Cornell University.
Host John Rollins interviews Cornell alumnus Ahmed Ahmed, a former refugee turned Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical student, about his life journey.