Advice on interesting page design?

Hello. I've got the beginnings of my site set up (http://faculty.washington.edu/bjbecker/) and I am stuck on a design approach. I love the Featured Content function of Catch Base Pro, and have set up my home page with four items. I understand that I only get to pick through four items once, so only my home page can use this function. So what would be an attractive way to set up my parent pages to introduce the various daughter pages? For example, I have a few projects that are nested under an overall "Projects' parent. I'd like the landing page for projects to be similar to my featured content, with nice photos and excerpts. Given that isn't possible, what would be a nice way to set this up? Any way to do it so the content updates when I update the daughter pages? Thanks for any examples or ideas you could share.