"They're all around you," says Karl Gschneidner, a senior metallurgist with the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, who has studied rare earth elements for more than 50 years.

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Shelley Wilks Geehr - The Case of Rare Earth Elements allows students who may not think they are good at science to bring their strengths in research, persuasion, analysis, and even performance to the ...

The Rare Earth Element (REE) research program was created to stimulate research and development in the area of rare earth element production and processing in Wyoming. The objectives of the program ...