Jeffrey A. Edwards and Lyubov A. Kurkalova, both associate professors in the department of Economics and Finance at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, received a three and a half year research grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $747,528 to study changing societal attitudes towards water scarcity as affected by ethanol production and increasing groundwater depletion of the Ogallala aquifer.

Undergraduate students from the School of Business and Economics and Ph.D. students from the Energy and Environmental Studies interdisciplinary program will participate in the research. The project will involve collaboration with geographers and survey specialists from Texas Tech University and Angelo State University.