“He wants to have a very strong background in a number of fields so when he enters the political arena, he will be very versed in those areas,” his mother said. Gregory has said he wants to have three Ph.D.s by the time he’s 27, the better to prepare him for a run at the presidency. He bought his first car.”Įssentially, she said, he’s doing the things that all 17-year-olds do, and then some.

“He’s 6 feet tall, still blond with blue eyes, very healthy, and he loves sports. It could help researchers combat pandemics and better understand global warming, she said, reading from an explanation he had written. It combines math and biology in a way that someday might allow scientists to model how antibodies are produced or cancers metastasize. His doctorate, his mother said, will be in a new field called computational biology. They remained in Virginia while he earned his master’s at the University of Virginia. They moved to Ashland so he could attend Randolph-Macon College, from which he graduated cum laude at age 13 with a bachelor’s in mathematics and minors in history and biology. He jumped from second to fourth grade in a couple of weeks, skipped junior high and entered high school at 7, graduating with honors a few days after his 10th birthday. They went from Pennsylvania to Florida when he was in second grade after a national search for a school system that would let him progress at his own rate. His parents have moved several times to enhance their only child’s education. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu

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