Updating blog and album

Author: justen-saini

_posts/2025-08-15-summer-symposium-awards.md

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+---
+title: Student Success at the McCaig Institute Summer Symposium
+image: images/blog/SummerSymposium.png
+author: Manske Lab
+tags:
+  - awards
+---
+
+The Manske Lab has a lot of success to celebrate at this year's McCaig Institute Summer Student Symposium! 
+Congratulations to Chris Brunet for winning 1st Place at the poster presentations for his work "Modelling Joint Contact Stresses of the Trapeziometacarpal (TMC) Joint Using Dynamic CT Imaging and Discrete Element Analysis"
+Congratulations to Mataea Armstrong, who was recognized as this year's recipient of the Linda Marchuk Memorial Award for all of her outstanding work and volunteer service during the first year of his graduate studies!
+
+An additional round of applause goes to Khiran Arumugam, who was a co-organizer of the Summer Student Symposium through his volunteer work with the McCaig Trainee Committee!

_posts/2025-09-01-tadiwa-scholarships.md

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+---
+title: Tadiwa gets a trio of awards for his PhD!
+image: images/blog/Yousif_Defense.png
+author: Manske Lab
+tags:
+  - awards
+---
+
+Congratulations to Tadiwa for winning a trio of awards for his PhD work! Over the past few months, Tadiwa has been awarded the following:
+        - Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) International
+        - CAN-TAP-TALENT PhD Award
+        - Arthritis Society PhD Salary Award
+
+

album/index.md

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 {% capture col1 %}
 
+{%
+  include figure.html
+  image="images/album/2025-08-hike-group-photo.jpg"
+  caption="2025 Lab hike at Chester Lake!"
+%}
+
+{%
+  include figure.html
+  image="images/album/2025-08-hike-rocks.jpg"
+  caption="Feeling on top of the world on the lab hike!"
+%}
+
+{%
+  include figure.html
+  image="images/album/2025-01-hike-squad.jpg"
+  caption="Lab hikes rock (pun intended)"
+%}
+
 {%
   include figure.html
   image="images/album/2025-01-xski_3.jpg"