Laser Eye Surgery

... The Manitoban Online Volume 93 • Issue 25 The Official University of Manitoba Students' Newspaper Website March 15, 2006 Home About Us Advertise Contact Staff Current Issue PDF Employment Letters to the Editor Meet the Staff Online Archives Personals Volunteer The Manitoban UMInfo People UMGoogle Font Size Respond Email Print-Friendly U of M, Ukraine and non-proliferation Unique program to be taken up by department of Foreign Affairs Andrew Sain Staff For the last 10 years, the University of Manitoba has — unbeknown to most — played a role in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons through the Science and Technology Centre (STCU) in Ukraine, established in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Soon the program will be taken over by the department of Foreign Affairs, leading former director of the centre Ostap Hawaleshka to consider the impact the STCU has had.

Hawaleshka, professor emeritus at the university, was the founding director of the centre and was responsible for the university’s longtime role as executing agency for the Canadian contribution to the centre.

In 2001, he was named a member of the Order of Canada for his role in establishing the centre.

The original idea for the centre came from European concerns over the proliferation of weapons into areas of Asia and the Middle East, said Hawaleshka.

“They were deadly afraid all those scientists that develop...

Read more...