Bob Bain is the Associate Professor in the Education, History and Museum Studies
at the University of Michigan. Professor Bain has received awards for teaching at
both the high school and university levels, including the College Educator of the Year Award from the Michigan Council of Social Studies in both 2008 and 2011.

Today we have more information available to us electronically than is held in many libraries. How do we make sense of all of the information coming our way? How do we decide what claims we can trust? The Big History Project tackles these challenges by helping students form big pictures of the past, present, and the future as well as teaching effective ways to examine claims. The Big History Project, a free course for high schools, was created because of Bill Gates’ personal interest in
providing this big-picture, problem-based class to high school students around the world.

This is the seventh in a series of ten distinguished lectures held on the second Tuesday of each month. The next lecture will be held April 4, 2017. The title is Emergency Medicine – The Good Things Wars Give Us!