Randy Ontiveros, who served as director of the Honors Humanities Living-Learning Program for six years, has been selected as a Provost’s Academic Advisor of the Year. Ontiveros, the associate chair and professor in the Department of English, was one of three individuals selected by a committee of advisors to receive…

Ariel Ron ’00, a University of Maryland and Maryland Honors alumnus whose research upends long-held ideas about the role of Northern agriculture in the runup to the Civil War and beyond, was announced Tuesday as one of 20 winners of the 2026 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship,…