{"id":4393,"date":"2020-02-28T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2024-11-30T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T17:31:28","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-halim-acosta-accepted-into-two-more-phd-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-halim-acosta-accepted-into-two-more-phd-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Halim Acosta Accepted into Two More PhD Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/02\/Halim-Acosta-Grad-School-Acceptances-Announcements-2020-2.png\" alt=\"Halim Acosta Accepted into Two More PhD Programs\" class=\"wp-image-4394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/02\/Halim-Acosta-Grad-School-Acceptances-Announcements-2020-2.png 360w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/02\/Halim-Acosta-Grad-School-Acceptances-Announcements-2020-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/02\/Halim-Acosta-Grad-School-Acceptances-Announcements-2020-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo of Halim Acosta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Halim Acosta! Halim has been accepted into the Computer Science PhD program at Arizona State University with full funding, and into the Computer Science PhD program at the University of Georgia, Athens! Halim is a senior at Eastern Washington University majoring in Computer Science. To prepare for graduate school Halim completed a summer research internship in 2019 through the EWU McNair Scholars Program. With mentor Dr. Yun Tian, Halim worked on an algorithm to find a solution to the ride-share problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/20182019cohort\/halim-acosta\/\">To read more about Halim and his research, check out his page on the EWU McNair website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are so proud of Halim and excited for his next steps towards attaining his PhD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Halim Acosta! Halim has been accepted into the Computer Science PhD program at Arizona State University with full funding, and into the Computer Science PhD program at the University of Georgia, Athens! Halim is a senior at Eastern Washington University majoring in Computer Science. To prepare for graduate school Halim &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Halim Acosta Accepted into Two More PhD Programs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-halim-acosta-accepted-into-two-more-phd-programs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Halim Acosta Accepted into Two More PhD Programs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,331,19,21,26,27,127,34],"tags":[159,83,164,163,154,134,98,104],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-2019-cohort","category-2019-2020-grad-acceptance","category-ewu-mcnair-phds","category-halim-acosta","category-mcnair-mentors","category-mentor","category-research","category-scholars","tag-acceptances","tag-accepted","tag-computer-science","tag-dr-yun-tian","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-mentor","tag-phd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37464,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/37464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}