HISTORY OF THE IOWA-ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
On September 24, 1998, seven graduate students in the Industrial Hygiene program at the department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health (now the College of Public Health) convened to discuss the formation of an Industrial Hygiene student chapter. We wanted the student chapter to fall under the purview of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). We discussed and approved a draft constitution that was modelled after that of the University of Michigan. We also elected officers for the association and voted unanimously to invite Dr. Stephen Reynolds and Dr. William Groves as advisors to the association. Our first office holders were Chandran Achutan, President, Alexis Grey, Secretary, and Matthew Nonnenmann, Treasurer. The name of the association was established as the Iowa-Illinois Industrial Hygiene Student Association (I3HSA), in accordance with our sponsoring section, the Iowa-Illinois Local Section. The seven founding members of the I3HSA are (in alphabetical order) as follows:
Chandran Achutan, Ph.D
Stanislav Borin, MS
Alexis Grey, MS
Martin Jones, Ph.D
Joung Ae Lee, MS
Matthew Nonnenmann, MS
Jeremy Slagley, MS
On January 27, 1999, the association was approved by the AIHA and we were recognized as a new student group at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHCE, 1999) in Toronto, Canada. Chandran Achutan represented the association at the function. We are also registered as a student body with the Office of Student Life, University of Iowa.
The official colors of the association are red and white, and the logo consists
of the lettering I3HSA in both these colors. The logo was designed
by Alexis Grey.