AIP graduate Karina Altman '23 of Burlington, Kentucky, earned her AIP master's from Miami in December, and won two American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) awards. The awards—Excellence in Journalism and Photographer of the Year—were for an article she wrote as part of her master's coursework. She traveled to AAZK's annual conference in Akron, Ohio, to accept the awards and presented at the Zoological Association of America conference in Providence, Rhode Island. There's more! Her article was featured in Answers magazine and published online, and Altman filmed a YouTube special about it! Her AIP field work took place at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

Altman earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Biology from Miami through Project Dragonfly‘s AIP while working as the Animal Programs Manager at the Ark Encounter's Ararat Ridge Zoo in Williamstown, Kentucky.