vbilsmith · rando2 · Apr 27, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026
diff --git a/_data/sources.yaml b/_data/sources.yaml
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 - id: doi:10.1111/jvim.70133
   type: journal paper
+  image: images/thumbnails/m_jvim70133-fig-0001.jpeg
   tags:
     - ontology
     - animals
     - domestication
 - id: doi:10.2460/ajvr.24.10.0315
   type: journal paper
+  image: images/thumbnails/full-ajvr.24.10.0315.figure1.jpg
   tags:
     - genetics
     - dogs
     - machine learning
 - id: doi:10.1093/jhered/esae022
   type: journal paper
-  image: images/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg
+  image: images/thumbnails/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg
   tags:
     - domestication
     - foxes

diff --git a/_members/alina_yildirim.md b/_members/alina_yildirim.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Alina Yildirim '26
-image: images/alina_yildirim.jpg
+image: images/headshots/alina_yildirim.jpg
 description: Honors Thesis Student & McKinley Fellow
 role: undergrad
 affiliations:

diff --git a/_members/angelica_brito_diaz.md b/_members/angelica_brito_diaz.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Angelica Brito Diaz '26
-image: images/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg
+image: images/headshots/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: former-ra

diff --git a/_members/ayesha_saleem_sheikh.md b/_members/ayesha_saleem_sheikh.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Ayesha Saleem Sheikh '28
-image: images/ayesha.jpeg
+image: images/headshots/ayesha.jpeg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 affiliations:

diff --git a/_members/caitlyn_kim.md b/_members/caitlyn_kim.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Caitlyn Kim '28
-image: images/caitlyn_kim.jpg
+image: images/headshots/caitlyn_kim.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 ---

diff --git a/_members/chioma_opara.md b/_members/chioma_opara.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Chioma Opara '27
-image: images/chioma_opara.jpg
+image: images/headshots/chioma_opara.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: former-ra

diff --git a/_members/elaine_chen.md b/_members/elaine_chen.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Elaine Chen '26
-image: images/elaine_chen.png
+image: images/headshots/elaine_chen.png
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 aliases:
   - Yilin Chen

diff --git a/_members/elizabeth_delmonico.md b/_members/elizabeth_delmonico.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Lizzie DelMonico '26
-image: images/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg
+image: images/headshots/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 links:

diff --git a/_members/glenvelis_perez.md b/_members/glenvelis_perez.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Glenvelis Perez '26
-image: images/glenvelis_perez.jpeg
+image: images/headshots/glenvelis_perez.jpeg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 aliases:
@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@ links:
   email: gperez42@smith.edu
   orcid: 0009-0000-6092-1547
 ---
-
diff --git a/_members/halie_rando.md b/_members/halie_rando.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Halie Rando
-image: images/halie_rando.jpg
+image: images/headshots/halie_rando.jpg
 role: pi
 aliases:
   - HM Rando

diff --git a/_members/hayley_ma.md b/_members/hayley_ma.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Hayley Ma '28
-image: images/Hayley_Ma.JPG
+image: images/headshots/Hayley_Ma.JPG
 description: Research Assistant
 role: undergrad
 affiliations:

diff --git a/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md b/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Hildana Shiferaw '25
-image: images/hildana_shiferaw.jpg 
+image: images/headshots/hildana_shiferaw.png
 description: Honors Thesis Student & McKinley Fellow
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/nora_honggu_zhou.md b/_members/nora_honggu_zhou.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+name: Nora Honggu Zhou '26J
+image: images/headshots/nora_zhou.png
+description: Undergraduate Researcher
+role: undergrad
+group: alum
+aliases:
+  - Nora Honggu Zhou
+---
+
+Nora was a Statistical and Data Sciences and Psychology major at Smith College. In the VBIL, she worked on the purebred dog image dataset used for fine-grained image classification.
diff --git a/_members/ray_qin.md b/_members/ray_qin.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Ray Qin '25
-image: images/ray_qin.jpg
+image: images/headshots/ray_qin.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/tana_liu.md b/_members/tana_liu.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Tana Liu '26
-image: images/tana_liu.jpg
+image: images/headshots/tana_liu.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: former-ra

diff --git a/_members/tseegi_nyamdorj.md b/_members/tseegi_nyamdorj.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Tseegi Nyamdorj '25
-image: images/tseegi_nyamdorj.png
+image: images/headshots/tseegi_nyamdorj.png
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/xinran_bi.md b/_members/xinran_bi.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Xinran Bi '24J
-image: images/xinran_bi.jpg
+image: images/headshots/xinran_bi.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/yixuan_he.md b/_members/yixuan_he.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Yixuan He '26J
-image: images/yixuan_he.jpg
+image: images/headshots/yixuan_he.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/yuzhang_fu.md b/_members/yuzhang_fu.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Yuzhang Fu '26J
-image: images/yuzhang_fu.jpeg
+image: images/headshots/yuzhang_fu.jpeg
 description: Postbac
 role: postbac
 aliases:

diff --git a/_members/zihan_lyu.md b/_members/zihan_lyu.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Zihan Lyu '25
-image: images/zihan_lyu.jpg
+image: images/headshots/zihan_lyu.jpg
 description: Undergraduate Researcher
 role: undergrad
 group: alum

diff --git a/_members/zoe_plumridge.md b/_members/zoe_plumridge.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Zo&#235; Plumridge '26
-image: images/zoe_plumridge.jpeg
+image: images/headshots/zoe_plumridge.jpeg
 description: Honors Thesis Student
 role: undergrad
 affiliations:

diff --git a/_posts/2026-04-27-Alina.md b/_posts/2026-04-27-Alina.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+title: Alina Presents Honors Thesis
+author: halie_rando
+people:
+  - alina_yildirim
+tags:
+  - honors
+  - thesis
+---
+
+<!-- excerpt start -->
+Today Alina Yildirim gave an excellent presentation of her honors thesis on zoom! Her thesis is titled "Translating Across Medicine’s Translation Gap: Comparing Semantic Representations of Human and Mouse Experiments."
+<!-- excerpt end -->
+
+ Alina described her work framing cross-species metadata comparison as a retrieval problem, testing seven different combinations of methods, and testing different benchmarking standards. Part of her thesis included hand-curating a proof-of-concept set of "gold standard" mouse/human metadata pairs!
+
+ We are so proud of Alina, who conceptualized the models and how to test them on her own. Some of her work will inform an NIH grant members of the lab are currently writing.
diff --git a/images/HannahSun.jpg → images/headshots/HannahSun.jpg b/images/HannahSun.jpg → images/headshots/HannahSun.jpg
diff --git a/images/Hayley_Ma.JPG → images/headshots/Hayley_Ma.JPG b/images/Hayley_Ma.JPG → images/headshots/Hayley_Ma.JPG
diff --git a/images/alina_yildirim.jpg → images/headshots/alina_yildirim.jpg b/images/alina_yildirim.jpg → images/headshots/alina_yildirim.jpg
diff --git a/images/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg → images/headshots/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg b/images/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg → images/headshots/angelica_brito_diaz.jpg
diff --git a/images/ayesha.jpeg → images/headshots/ayesha.jpeg b/images/ayesha.jpeg → images/headshots/ayesha.jpeg
diff --git a/images/caitlyn_kim.jpg → images/headshots/caitlyn_kim.jpg b/images/caitlyn_kim.jpg → images/headshots/caitlyn_kim.jpg
diff --git a/images/chioma_opara.jpg → images/headshots/chioma_opara.jpg b/images/chioma_opara.jpg → images/headshots/chioma_opara.jpg
diff --git a/images/elaine_chen.png → images/headshots/elaine_chen.png b/images/elaine_chen.png → images/headshots/elaine_chen.png
diff --git a/images/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg → images/headshots/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg b/images/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg → images/headshots/elizabeth_delmonico.jpg
diff --git a/images/glenvelis_perez.jpeg → images/headshots/glenvelis_perez.jpeg b/images/glenvelis_perez.jpeg → images/headshots/glenvelis_perez.jpeg
diff --git a/images/halie_rando.jpg → images/headshots/halie_rando.jpg b/images/halie_rando.jpg → images/headshots/halie_rando.jpg
diff --git a/images/headshots/hildana_shiferaw.png b/images/headshots/hildana_shiferaw.png
diff --git a/images/headshots/nora_zhou.png b/images/headshots/nora_zhou.png
diff --git a/images/ray_qin.jpg → images/headshots/ray_qin.jpg b/images/ray_qin.jpg → images/headshots/ray_qin.jpg
diff --git a/images/tana_liu.jpg → images/headshots/tana_liu.jpg b/images/tana_liu.jpg → images/headshots/tana_liu.jpg
diff --git a/images/tseegi_nyamdorj.png → images/headshots/tseegi_nyamdorj.png b/images/tseegi_nyamdorj.png → images/headshots/tseegi_nyamdorj.png
diff --git a/images/xinran_bi.jpg → images/headshots/xinran_bi.jpg b/images/xinran_bi.jpg → images/headshots/xinran_bi.jpg
diff --git a/images/yixuan_he.jpg → images/headshots/yixuan_he.jpg b/images/yixuan_he.jpg → images/headshots/yixuan_he.jpg
diff --git a/images/yuzhang_fu.jpeg → images/headshots/yuzhang_fu.jpeg b/images/yuzhang_fu.jpeg → images/headshots/yuzhang_fu.jpeg
diff --git a/images/zihan_lyu.jpg → images/headshots/zihan_lyu.jpg b/images/zihan_lyu.jpg → images/headshots/zihan_lyu.jpg
diff --git a/images/zoe_plumridge.jpeg → images/headshots/zoe_plumridge.jpeg b/images/zoe_plumridge.jpeg → images/headshots/zoe_plumridge.jpeg
diff --git a/images/hildana_shiferaw.jpg b/images/hildana_shiferaw.jpg
diff --git a/images/full-ajvr.24.10.0315.figure1.jpg → ...umbnails/full-ajvr.24.10.0315.figure1.jpg b/images/full-ajvr.24.10.0315.figure1.jpg → ...umbnails/full-ajvr.24.10.0315.figure1.jpg
diff --git a/images/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg → ...s/thumbnails/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg b/images/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg → ...s/thumbnails/jhered_2024_red_fox_map.jpeg
diff --git a/images/thumbnails/m_jvim70133-fig-0001.jpeg b/images/thumbnails/m_jvim70133-fig-0001.jpeg
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
@@ -54,31 +54,6 @@ Learn more about our research by browsing our publications.
 
 {% capture text %}
 
-Check back in the future for more information about specific lab projects.
-
-{%
-  include button.html
-  link="projects"
-  text="Browse our projects"
-  icon="fa-solid fa-arrow-right"
-  flip=true
-  style="bare"
-%}
-
-{% endcapture %}
-
-{%
-  include feature.html
-  image="images/thumbnails/humanPCA.jpg"
-  link="projects"
-  title="Our Projects"
-  flip=true
-  style="bare"
-  text=text
-%}
-
-{% capture text %}
-
 Smith students of all years and many different majors are contributing to our ongoing research in bioinformatics, health AI, document engineering, and more.
 
 {%

diff --git a/news/index.md b/news/index.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ redirect_from:
 
 {% include search-box.html %}
 
+{% include tags.html tags=site.tags %}
+
 {% include search-info.html %}
 
 {% assign current_year = "" %}

diff --git a/teaching/index.md b/teaching/index.md
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ Here is some information about the classes that Prof. Rando has taught at Smith.
 
 {% include search-box.html %}
 
-{% include tags.html tags=site.tags %}
-
 {% include search-info.html %}
 
 {% include list.html data="courses" component="course-excerpt" %}