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

May 1, 2026

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

Photo of Sarah Hokanson (CAS’05), BU’s assistant vice president and assistant provost for research development and PhD and postdoctoral affairs

How to Be a Better Mentor

March 18, 2024

BU’s Sarah Hokanson, winner of the National Postdoctoral Association’s 2024 Gallagher Mentor Award, on helping others reach their goals

How to Deal with Rude Customers

March 16, 2026

When hospitality workers cope with disrespectful customers by sabotaging service, the stress can follow them home and interfere with sleep, finds Boston University researcher

How to Help Kids Become Better Readers

March 27, 2023

How to Help People Break a Bad Habit (or Start a Good Habit)—Even if They Don’t Want To

January 18, 2023

Whether someone needs to stop smoking, start an exercise routine, or get their kids to brush their teeth, BU professor and psychologist Belinda Borrelli helps motivate change

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable

June 20, 2023

The global research community creates billions of pounds of plastic waste a year—an award-winning BU Campus Climate Lab–backed project aims to make science more eco-friendly

How to Save for Retirement—and Why Most of Us Haven’t (or Can’t) Save Enough

February 22, 2024

Whether it’s because of a broken Social Security benefits system, pervasive economic inequality, or poor retirement advice, not everyone’s later years will be so golden

How to Secure Funding from the Department of Defense (2019)

October 17, 2019

Are you interested in obtaining research funding from the Department of Defense but aren’t sure where to begin? Lewis-Burke Associates LLC, a federal lobbying and consulting firm in Washington, DC, will discuss current and emerging research areas of interest to DOD, including materials, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum information sciences, biology, chemistry, human-machine teaming, […]

How to Talk to Kids about Race and Help Them Make More Interracial Friendships

April 4, 2023

How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Expertise and Engage Target Audiences (2021)

October 27, 2021

Hosted by BU PR | Social Media and BU Office of ResearchAre you looking to engage with target research funders, collaborators, academic journals, media reporters and publications, or the general public? Dr. Matthew Partridge—a biochemist who has spent 16 years working in both industrial and academic research, and a decade tweeting and posting about it […]