Read more at NAU News: Northern Arizona University economics professor Julie Mueller is a principal investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at increasing knowledge and solutions around the unique problems pandemics present to rural areas.
Mueller, who has an 80 percent appointment in the Franke College of Business and a 20 percent appointment in the School of Earth and Sustainability, is researching “Build and Broaden: Advancing fundamental knowledge of social, behavioral, and economic responses to pandemics in minority communities.” It is funded by the NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate and offers an interdisciplinary look at rural and tourism-dependent communities.