How to become a
Certified Member
of

The Institute for Advanced Physics

The requirements for certified members are:

1) Submit an email with your resume or CV requesting certified membership candidacy. Once approved, the Institute will discuss with you the details of the following steps. Typically, approval requires at least a Bachelor's degree in a pure or applied (e.g., engineers) science or philosophy with some science course work.

2) Successfully complete the course "The Science Before Science" by Professor Anthony Rizzi at
International Catholic University. Their contact and order information is as follows:

          ICU charges a minimal fee for the course, $60. This includes a 9-10 hour series of lectures on Video tape. The book
          needs to be purchased separately. Note also that the credit received can be applied towards ICU's degree program;
          see the ICU web site.

Please specify Audio or Video format.

Phone orders with Visa/MasterCard (800) 771-7346. (Please do not email your credit card number!)

For course details click here

3) If taken through ICU, once you have successfully completed the course, send, by snail mail, your name, a copy of your certification from International Catholic University, your US mailing address and email address to:

IAP

P.O. 15030
Baton Rouge, LA 70895-5030

4) If taken directly through IAP (still need video lectures above), then successful completion of a course final exam will result in certification.

What happens when I become a certified member?

    Most importantly, it means you have an understanding of key issues that have led our culture astray for 400 years and, what's more, you know the solution and are now, as a member, part of inculturating that solution. Thus, becoming a certified member represents an accomplishment that few currently reach.
     Your information will be archived at the Institute and you will be officially added to the certified members list. This means you will begin to receive email installments of Institute Newsletter, and entitles you to access the email list of other certified members and associate members, thus putting you in the center of activity of thinking about science and the faith. Becoming a certified member also makes you eligible for one of our Intern programs.
   In particular, one may take part in our graduate internship program, which is for those with an appropriate science background equivalent to B.S. degree in science, mathematics or engineering. Other internship programs are under development for those with non-science backgrounds but who nonetheless wish to learn more about the rich and fascinating fields of science and philosophy.

Certified members can advance the mission of the Institute in many different ways, including writing articles, contributing to educational materials and research, contributing to advancing modern physics, grading homework, and speaking at and attending our national conferences, including invitation only conferences.