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font-family:Syntax'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>The MIT Alumni Association has officially changed the way we
abbreviate alumni degrees and I want to alert the communications community
about the change. Our new guideline drops the course number. We now list degree
abbreviations and years in editorial materials. This change is intended to make
the information clear and to align us with contemporary usage in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Technology Review</span></i> and peer institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>Our goal is to make it easy to identify alumni in MIT
communications – and we, of course, hope you will join this effort. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>So, here's the new MITAA abbreviation guideline:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>Undergraduate: Walter Frey '56<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>Graduate: Martin Tang SM '72<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Syntax'>Undergrad & grad: Philip Greenspun '82, SM '93, PhD
'99<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Syntax><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Syntax><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Syntax;color:navy'>Nancy DuVergne Smith<br>
MIT Alumni Association | Editorial Director<br>
W59-200 | 617-253-8217 | ndsmith@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://alum.mit.edu/">http://alum.mit.edu/</a></span></font><font
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