CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– A Massachusetts Institute of Technology student from Cumberland is receiving national recognition and a hefty scholarship for his research into quantum computers.
Christopher Gilbert, 19, has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship.
“I was so stunned,” Gilbert said. “I was, like, so excited, and I think I just immediately called my mom and ran up to the house yelling, ‘I won it! I won it!’ It was, like, unbelievable.”