Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 5/3/22

The people responsible for some of the world’s most innovative ideas — such as the sports bra, laser hair removal and synthetic lubricants — get the red carpet treatment this week at a two-day event in Washington, D.C., dubbed “the Greatest Celebration of American Innovation,” sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Of the 27 innovators being inducted into the prestigious organization, three have ties to NC State. Horticulturalist Sylvia Blankenship and the late biochemist Edward Sisler are honored for identifying a novel compound that significantly extends the freshness and storage life of fruits, vegetables and cut floral products.

Blankenship is a professor emerita at NC State. Sisler earned his doctorate in plant physiology at NC State in 1958, and served as a professor of biochemistry in the Department of Structural and Molecular Biochemistry for much of his career. He died in 2016.

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