Keith Calkins graduated from Andrews University with a double major in mathematics [1981] and physics [1988] and earned an M.S. in computer information science [1982] in the early 1980's. In the early 1990's he completed an interdisciplinary masters in mathematics and physics [from AU 1991] which included a semester at Argonne National Laboratories [fall 1988] before completing his Ph.D. coursework at the University of Notre Dame [1991-93, MS in 1996]. In 2002 he obtained an MAT degree and secondary certification in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science.

Keith has worked full-time at Andrews University for over 25 years [starting in 1978], almost fifteen years in the computing center, doing computer technical support, and now almost eleven years in the Math & Science Center teaching math to bright public high school students. For the last ten years in the computing center he was an assistant director, responsible for maintaining the Xerox Sigma computers and CP-V operating system, utilities, and languages. High points include walking into NASA and in four hours repairing their Sigma 9 computer which had been down for two weeks, modifying the telescoped Chebyshev polynomials for sine which sent man to the moon so it would Fortran 77 certify, and then emulating the Xerox Sigma 7 computer in GCC under DOS.

When he finds spare time he maintains a 40 acre centennial farm, divides natural logs on his sawmill, and extracts genealogical roots.