Brett
Keller

Brett is a senior at Harding University in Arkansas, where he studies biochemistry and molecular biology and political science. Helping with health clinics in Zambia, volunteering at an AIDS hospice in South Africa, and living at an orphanage in Ghana sparked Brett’s interest in international public health.

Through Harding’s Honors College, Brett started the L.C. Sears Collegiate Seminar Series. The series has presented programs on diverse issues, including the Arab-Israeli conflict, the HIV pandemic, Christian/atheist relations, and feminism. Brett also serves as Special Projects Coordinator at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is a Senior Editor for FRANK: Academics for the Real World, a review of ideas in public service.

Brett spent semesters abroad in Florence, Italy and Athens, Greece and backpacked from Portugal to Moscow. As a NASA EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellow, he has developed spectrometers as sensors for hybrid rocket motors, presented research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, and competed with the Flying Bison in NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative. Brett also competes nationally with the Harding Academic Team and sings in the Chorus.