Here is a list of certain historical events that occurred during the month of May.

Flint, Michigan’s, Kettering University will host an international statistics conference in June titled “Flint: One City—100 Years Under Variability.” The conference will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the American Statistical Association.

The American Statistical Association has launched a new “preparatory level”—called Graduate Statistician, or GStat—to its voluntary, individual statistician accreditation program.

The 21st meeting of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XXI) will be held November 3–7 at the Crowne Plaza Washington DC-Rockville. At least 16 one-hour tutorials on diverse topics pertinent to the research, clinical development, and regulation of pharmaceuticals will be presented.

This month’s column presents the third in a series of interviews about ASA President Nathaniel Schenker’s presidential initiatives. Here, he interviews Janet Buckingham of Southwest Research Institute about training in statistical leadership for working statisticians .