AIP (Advanced Inquiry Program) graduate Luetta Jean Coonrod '12 of Lombard, Illinois, wrote an article about her experience as an interpretive presenter on women’s roles in the 1860s at the Glenview History Center for the National Association for Interpretation's Legacy magazine. The experience "brought me to realize that history and science are two sides of the same coin," she writes. "The story is more completely told when you have the perspective of both. You can better understand the importance of the prairie grasses when you connect that to the life of the people living among it." Read more

As a student in Miami's biology department, Coonrod earned a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in the Biological Sciences through Project Dragonfly's AIP while working as a non-formal educator.