Photo: A close-up on Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy

How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis

BU historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s Markets of Pain charts opium from a commodity in colonial India to fuel for a drug crisis in modern-day America

Learn more
BU Today
headlines: aug 19th
Check out our BU Today Featured Events
Photo: Scanning electron microscopic images of presolar silicon carbide grains extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which landed in Australia in 1969. Images courtesy of Nan Liu 
Astrophysics

Tiny Flecks of Ancient Stardust Offer Clues to Solar System Origins

Photo: A shot of six key BU figures in a collage
University News

Video: BU’s Values Told Through Voices from History

Photo: A cropped scan of a oil painting with rectangular shapes that evoke that of a cluttered bottles on a table
Visual Arts

Gallery: Peri Schwartz (CFA’73)