EMAC Lab Website

Built with Minimal Mistakes and hosted at energy-mac.github.io.

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How to update the site (no coding needed)

Add a news post

1. Go to _posts/ → Add file → Create new file
2. Name it: YYYY-MM-DD-short-title.md (e.g. 2026-09-01-new-paper.md)
3. Add this header and fill in your content:

---
layout: single
title: "Your title here"
date: 2026-09-01
---

Write your news item here in plain text or Markdown.

4. Click Commit — site rebuilds in ~30 seconds

Add yourself to the People page

1. Go to _people/ → Add file → Create new file
2. Name it firstname-lastname.md
3. Copy this and fill in your details:

---
name: "Your Name"
program: "ERG" or "EECS" or "ERG and GSPP" or...
role: "PhD Student", "Master's Student", "Undergrad", or "Postdoc" ...
photo: "/assets/img/people/your-name.jpg"
email: "you@berkeley.edu" (optional)
research: "a short (no more than 3 sentences) description of your research"
alumni: "no"
years: "20XX-"
CV: "cv-your-name.pdf"
---

A short bio paragraph about yourself.

4. Add your photo to assets/img/students/ (square crop works best)
5. Add your CV (if you want) to assets/files/cv-your-name.pdf
6. Commit all files

Move someone to Alumni

Open their file in _people/ and change:

alumni: "yes"
years: "20xx-20xx"
current_role: "Their new job title and organization"
degree: "PhD" OR "Master's" or "Bachelor's" or "Postdoc"

Edit research areas or teaching

Edit _pages/research.md or _pages/teaching.md directly.

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File structure

_config.yml          ← Site settings (don't edit unless you know what you're doing)
_posts/              ← News items
_pages/              ← Static pages (people, research, teaching, join)
_people/           ← One file per group member
assets/img/ ← Photos
assets/files/ ← Files, like CVs
assets/css/custom.css← Colors and styling
_data/navigation.yml ← Top nav links