News content (src/contents/news)

News entries are loaded from individual MDX files under:

src/contents/news

Each file corresponds to one news item.

src/contents/news
├── 042725_news6.mdx
├── 021924_news5.mdx
├── 102123_news4.mdx
├── 062423_news3.mdx
├── 041023_news2.mdx
└── 112722_news1.mdx

File names are for your own organization. The date field in frontmatter controls ordering, not the filename.

Frontmatter

Every news file must include frontmatter with a date:

---
date: 2025-02-27 15:00:00-0800
---

Joined [Some Lab](https://example.com/) at Northwestern University!

• date is required — items without a valid date are ignored.
• The value should be an ISO-like string. The calendar day is what matters. Time and timezone (e.g. 15:00:00-0800) are accepted but optional.
• News items are sorted by date (newest first).
• Display formatting of the date is controlled by homePage.newsDateFormat in enju.config.ts.
• News display cutting off before a certain years from now is controlled by homePage.newsCutoffYears in enju.config.ts (default is 2 years ago).
• Maximum number of news items shown on the home page is controlled by homePage.maximumNewsItemsOnHome in enju.config.ts (default is 5).

Body content

The body of each file is a short MDX block:

• Typically one short line or one sentence.
• Standard Markdown syntax is supported (links, bold, italics, etc.).

The layout is tuned for concise items; longer text will simply wrap over multiple lines in the news list.