Join us in 15 minutes for the live premiere of one of our favorite videos from #FullyChargedLive! A great team of young people from #UBC in Canada, who are all part of the #UBCFormulaElectric team, and are using their knowledge to get placements in companies like Tesla! ! https://youtu.be/DVv7I2bvpb8
"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."
Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.
"The widely held stereotype that people experiencing homelessness would be more likely to spend extra cash on drugs, alcohol and “temptation goods” has been upended by a study that found a majority used a $7,500 payment mostly on rent, food, housing, transit and clothes."
"pressure from advocacy groups to implement a universal basic income project that would help ease a cost-of-living crisis"
#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam#Indigenous#language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.
#CfP for the #conference "Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la #littérature et les #arts face au désastre", which will take place at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver #UBC) on October 26-27, 2023.
