| STAMPSHOW MEETINGS
ROUSING SUCCESS
IAP and the NPM hosted three meetings at Stampshow in Richmond. The turn-out for all the meetings was spectacular. Nearly 70 collectors attended the first meeting at which Dave Herendeen presented the results of his NPM scholarship. For those who missed these informational talks, you may view the Power Point presentations here.
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| --- NEWS FLASH ---
The Chemistry Department of Rutgers University becomes IAP Center of Excellence The Confederate Stamp Alliance becomes IAP Alliance member
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| --- NEWS FLASH --- First IAP Grant Approved
IAP has awarded its first grant to Prof. Alexandra Pekarovicova of the Ink and Printability Institute at Western Michigan University. The title of her study is: Insight into Papermaking and Ink Chemistry of “United States Three-Cent Bank Note Issues”
More details as this effort progresses
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The Institute for Analytical Philately, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to sponsoring technical research activities to better the stamp collecting hobby.
Our goal is to assist philatelists in gaining new insight and knowledge of stamps through the application of rigorous scientific methods.
Because one of the most important aspects of research is the dissemination of results, all philatelists receiving grants from IAP are required to publish in widely circulated journals of record, both scientific and philatelic.
As a virtual organization, our Web Site is dedicated to providing all philatelic students with announcements of new scientific research in philately and an archive of research in our Reference Library.
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At IAP, we believe there is a large pool of untapped technical expertise and human resources in the philatelic community. This expertise can be directed to the betterment of philately through the performance of rigorous, analytical research in many areas that can benefit from new technologies.
Our mission then is simple. IAP is an educational institution dedicated to applying analytical techniques to philatelic studies which are intended to provide long term and wide ranging benefits to all aspects of philately. To facilitate these benefits, IAP will provide Research Grants and technical support to qualified philatelists to assist them in performing their valuable work.
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