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2025 Davidson Fellow Christopher Gilbert: “Cumberland student attending MIT gets $25K scholarship for quantum computing work”

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.”

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