uvarc · kah3f · Mar 12, 2026 · Mar 2, 2026 · Mar 3, 2026 · Mar 3, 2026
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .DS_Store
 Thumbs.db
+a.out
 public/
 .*.swp
 resources/
-venv/
+venv/
diff --git a/assets/js/academic-search.js b/assets/js/academic-search.js
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ function initSearch(force, fuse) {
 
   // If query deleted, clear results.
   if ( query.length < 1) {
+    $('#search-result-count').empty();
     $('#search-hits').empty();
   }
 
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ function initSearch(force, fuse) {
     return;
 
   // Do search.
+  $('#search-result-count').empty();
   $('#search-hits').empty();
   searchAcademic(query, fuse);
   let newURL = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?q=' + encodeURIComponent(query) + window.location.hash;
@@ -74,11 +76,12 @@ function searchAcademic(query, fuse) {
   // console.log({"results": results});
 
   if (results.length > 0) {
-    $('#search-hits').append('<h2 class="mt-0">' + results.length + ' ' + i18n.results + '</h2>');
+    $('#search-result-count').html('<h2 class="mt-0">' + results.length + ' ' + i18n.results + '</h2>');
     parseResults(query, results);
   } else {
-    $('#search-hits').append('<div class="search-no-results">' + i18n.no_results + '</div>');
+    $('#search-result-count').html('<div class="search-no-results">' + i18n.no_results + '</div>');
   }
+  // document.querySelector(".search-results").showModal()
 }
 
 // Parse search results.

diff --git a/assets/scss/custom.scss b/assets/scss/custom.scss
@@ -72,12 +72,23 @@ h6 {
   font-size: 1rem;
 }
 
+.search-header {
+  z-index: 1032;
+}
 
 html {
   scroll-behavior: smooth;
   scroll-padding-top: 100px;
 }
 
+.close-search-btn {
+  background: none;
+  border: none;
+  padding: 0;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  line-height: 1;
+}
+
 /* Change the colors for the "light" button */
 
 .btn-light {
@@ -121,6 +132,11 @@ html {
   box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.2rem rgba(216, 217, 219, 0.5);
 }
 
+#hero {
+  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.45);
+  background-blend-mode: multiply; // darken background (blend the above color with background image) to improve legibility of white text
+}
+
 .hero-title {
   font-size: 2.5rem;
 }

diff --git a/config/_default/menus.toml b/config/_default/menus.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   weight = 10
 
 [[main]]
-  name = "Short Courses"
+  name = "Programming Courses"
   url = "courses/"
   weight = 20
 
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 
 [[main]]
   name = "People"
-  url = "authors/"
+  url = "#people"
   weight = 50
 
 [[main]]
   name = "Contact"
-  url = "https://www.rc.virginia.edu/support/"
+  url = "#slider"
   weight = 60
diff --git a/content/authors/abd/_index.md b/content/authors/abd/_index.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ authors:
 # Is this the primary user of the site?
 superuser: false
 
+user_groups: 
+- DAC
+
 # Role/position
 role: Research Computing Scientist
 

diff --git a/content/authors/as/_index.md b/content/authors/as/_index.md
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ authors:
 superuser: false
 
 # Role/position
-role: Research Computing Consultant
+role: Technical Support Manager
+
+user_groups:
+- RC
 
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:

diff --git a/content/authors/bmr/_index.md b/content/authors/bmr/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+# Display name
+title: Bruce Rushing
+
+# Username (this should match the folder name)
+authors:
+- bmr
+
+# Is this the primary user of the site?
+superuser: false
+
+user_groups: 
+- DAC
+
+# Role/position
+role: Research Computing Scientist
+
+# Organizations/Affiliations
+organizations:
+- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
+  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
+
+# Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
+#bio: 
+
+interests:
+- Machine Learning/Deep Learning
+- LLMs
+
+---
diff --git a/content/authors/bmr/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/bmr/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/cag/_index.md b/content/authors/cag/_index.md
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ authors:
 superuser: false
 
 # Role/position
-role: Research Computing Consultant
+role: Former Employee
+
+user_groups:
+- Former
 
 # Organizations/Affiliations
-organizations:
-- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
-  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
 
 # Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
 #bio: 

diff --git a/content/authors/cmd/_index.md b/content/authors/cmd/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+# Display name
+title: Camden Duy
+
+# Username (this should match the folder name)
+authors:
+- cmd
+
+# Is this the primary user of the site?
+superuser: false
+
+# Role/position
+role: Research Computing Associate
+
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
+# Organizations/Affiliations
+organizations:
+- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
+  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
+
+# Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
+#bio: 
+
+interests:
+- High Peformance Computing
+- GPU computing
+
+---
diff --git a/content/authors/cmd/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/cmd/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/dat/_index.md b/content/authors/dat/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Research Computing Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- DAC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing
@@ -24,4 +27,4 @@ interests:
 - Bioinformatics
 - HPC
 - Research
----
+---
diff --git a/content/authors/dat/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/dat/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/gka/_index.md b/content/authors/gka/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Senior Computational Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/hp/_index.md b/content/authors/hp/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+# Display name
+title: Hana Parece
+
+# Username (this should match the folder name)
+authors:
+- hp
+
+# Is this the primary user of the site?
+superuser: false
+
+# Role/position
+role: Research Computing Associate
+
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
+# Organizations/Affiliations
+organizations:
+- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
+  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
+
+# Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
+#bio: 
+
+interests:
+- High Peformance Computing
+- Data Analysis
+
+---
diff --git a/content/authors/hp/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/hp/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/jmh/_index.md b/content/authors/jmh/_index.md
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ authors:
 superuser: false
 
 # Role/position
-role: Research Computing Consultant
+role: Assistant Director, Data Analytics Center
+
+user_groups:
+- DAC
 
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:

diff --git a/content/authors/kah/_index.md b/content/authors/kah/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Senior Research Computing Consultant
 
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/kal/_index.md b/content/authors/kal/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Computational Research Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- DAC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/khs/_index.md b/content/authors/khs/_index.md
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ authors:
 superuser: false
 
 # Role/position
-role: Research Computing Consultant, Manager of User Services
+role: Former Employee
+
+user_groups:
+- Former
 
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
-- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
-  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
+- name: School of Data Science
 
 # Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
 #bio: 

diff --git a/content/authors/mab/_index.md b/content/authors/mab/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Computational Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/mab/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/mab/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/pbo/_index.md b/content/authors/pbo/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Computational Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/pbo/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/pbo/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/ppr/_index.md b/content/authors/ppr/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Research Computing Scientist
 
+user_groups:
+- Former
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/ppr/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/ppr/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/rs/_index.md b/content/authors/rs/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Lead Scientist, Scientific Computing
 
+user_groups:
+- RC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/teh/_index.md b/content/authors/teh/_index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Research Computing Consultant
 
+user_groups:
+- DAC
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/uvarc/_index.md b/content/authors/uvarc/_index.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ authors:
 # Is this the primary user of the site?
 superuser: true
 
+user_group:
+- Admin
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
 organizations:
 - name: University of Virginia Research Computing

diff --git a/content/authors/wtr/_index.md b/content/authors/wtr/_index.md
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ superuser: false
 # Role/position
 role: Former Employee
 
+user_groups:
+- Former
+
 # Organizations/Affiliations
-organizations:
-- name: University of Virginia Research Computing
-  url: "https://www.rc.virginia.edu"
 
 # Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
 #bio: 

diff --git a/content/courses/cpp-introduction/characters.md b/content/courses/cpp-introduction/characters.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Byte types or their equivalents offer direct access to memory, which is organize
 
 ### C-Style Strings
 
-C-style strings are actually [arrays](/courses/cpp-introduction/arrays_vecs) of individual characters.  They must be declared with a fixed size, or allocated.
+C-style strings are actually [arrays](/courses/cpp-introduction/c_arrays/) of individual characters.  They must be declared with a fixed size, or allocated.
 ```c++
    char cstr[8];
 

diff --git a/content/courses/cpp-introduction/declarations.md b/content/courses/cpp-introduction/declarations.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ int   j=2;
 Start Geany or your preferred editor or IDE.  Type
 {{< code file="/courses/cpp-introduction/codes/variables.cxx" lang="c++" >}}
 
-Variables can be declared and initialized anywhere in the body of the code as long as they are declared before they are used.  There are some implications for variable _scope_, which we will discuss [later](/courses/cpp-introduction/scope.md).  
+Variables can be declared and initialized anywhere in the body of the code as long as they are declared before they are used.  There are some implications for variable _scope_, which we will discuss [later](/courses/cpp-introduction/scope/).  
 
 {{< code file="/courses/cpp-introduction/codes/vardecls.cxx" lang="c++" >}}