{"id":7078,"date":"2010-12-10T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2010-12-10T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:20:21","slug":"three-questions-withhichem-ben-el-mechaiekh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/12\/three-questions-withhichem-ben-el-mechaiekh\/","title":{"rendered":"Three questions with&#8230;Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7079\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7079\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7079 \" title=\"Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hichem.jpg\" alt=\"Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh is a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/mathematics\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematics<\/a> professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Mathematics and Science<\/a>. He&#8217;s been at Brock since 1988, or &#8220;a good part of my adult life.&#8221; He lives in St. Catharines on the Niagara escarpment at what he calls &#8220;the crest of the cauldron.&#8221; One of the biggest influences has been his mother, who has &#8220;courage, kindness and an even temper,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) The constant learning and the sharing with students (they keep my mind and spirit younger!) and colleagues.<br \/>\nb) The opportunity provided by mathematics and sciences to have a glimpse at the beauty and mystery of the universe.<br \/>\nc) The universal dimension of academic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do for fun?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For me, there is no more pleasurable experience than solving a challenging mathematical research problem. So, fun is when I find the time to work on such problems. Next to that: I enjoy writing poetry (in French), reading, cooking a hearty meal for friends and loved ones, spending quality time with family \u2026 All the rest (or almost) is duty!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the last good book you read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Other-Demons-Penguin-Great-Century\/dp\/0140256369\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Of Love and Other Demons<\/em><\/a> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related story:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=4327\">Math professor becomes Associate Dean | <em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh is a Mathematics professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Faculty of Mathematics and Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[91,3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}