He’s a vegetarian scientist by day and a philosophical rapper by night.
A multitalented Stuyvesant HS senior was the lone city student named yesterday among the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition.
Alan Sage said his work on the interaction between certain plants and amino acids known as glutamates could have implications in the study of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
“It was appropriate — I’m a vegetarian,” Sage, 17, said of his plant-based study. “I didn’t want to do anything that may cause harm to animals.”
Sage, an arts and entertainment editor for his school’s newspaper who also likes to drop philosophical rhymes, was accepted early at Yale University.
The winner of the nation’s oldest scientific competition — and $100,000 in scholarship money — will be named in March.
Last year, four city students were finalists.