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Add a news item

Items are placed in data/news.json by their date, newest first — so a backdated item slots in where it belongs instead of going to the top. The homepage ticker carries the first 10; the All News view shows everything.

Title *

One line. Plain text, no markup.

Date *

Shown exactly as typed. A month and year (September 2026) also decides where the item sits in the list. Anything else — "Coming in Spring 2027" — still works, but you place it yourself with the arrows.

Tag

The pill on the card. Defaults to News.

Summary *

Inline HTML is allowed and rendered as-is — <b>, <u>, <em>, <a href>. Close every tag you open.

Link

Full URL, a page like contact.html, or a file in assets/.

Link label

Attach a poster or slide deck (PDF or image → assets/talks/)

On upload, the Link field above is filled in with its path.

In the file

newest first

Add a team member

Writes to data/team.json. Only name, role, status and order are required — every link is optional and a blank one simply hides its icon.

Name *

Include "Prof." or "Dr." if it applies.

Slug

Filled in from the name. Also the photo filename.

Joining as *

Decides who sorts first.

Status *

Order

Leave blank — they go last among others with the same role. Only set a number to move someone up within their own role.

Title

Research interests

Comma-separated — each one becomes a pill on the card.

Photo

Cropped square and resized to 600×600, then saved as assets/team/<slug>.jpg. Leave empty and the card shows their initials.

Links all optional

Email Publish this address on the site

Faculty addresses always show; everyone else opts in.

GitHub

Google Scholar

Website

Full off-repo URL only — never a file under assets/. A committed CV cannot be taken out of git history.

Joined

Left

Alumni cards only.

Now

Alumni cards only.

In the file

Add a publication

Writes to scripts/publications-data.js, which sync_publications.py also generates. The new entry is inserted at the top and nothing else in the file moves.

Title *

Authors *

One string, in order, comma-separated.

Venue *

Conference or journal, plus any track or acceptance note.

Year *

Sorts the list.

Month

Type *

Areas *

These drive the filter pills on the publications page.

Short slug, unique. Doubles as the image filename.

Description

Figure

Saved as assets/papers/<id>.png, capped at 1200px wide. A placeholder shows if there is none.

Links all optional

Scholar id

Reference only — kept so sync_publications.py can match the entry.

In the file

newest first

Unused files

Images and PDFs under assets/ that nothing points at any more — usually left behind when an entry was deleted. Removing one here is the same as deleting the file from the repo, so there is nothing left to tidy by hand.

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On your own machine

On the deployed site

Add a news item

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Add a team member

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Add a publication

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