Aidan Klemm is taking his research to the next level. In January, he will head to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee as a part of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

A Case Western Reserve scientist is working on a sustainable way to chemically transform so-called “rare earth” minerals into metals for renewable energy applications. If successful, the new process could one day help increase American production of the metals, which are now primarily imported from China.