He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Professor Dugger is a graduate of Project MEGSSS of Broward County, Florida, which became IMACS in 1993. As a high school senior, he submitted an original research paper entitled “On the Homomorphisms between Finite Abelian Groups” to the 41st International Science and Engineering Fair, winning–among several other honors–the first place award from the American Mathematical Society.