Dr. Michael R. Ziegler (late) earned his B.S. from Shippensburg State College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. After completing post-doctoral work at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Ziegler was appointed to the faculty of Marquette University where he held the rank of Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. He published over a dozen research articles in complex analysis and co-authored eleven undergraduate mathematics textbooks with Karl E. Byleen and Raymond A. Barnett