Check out this article titled: "If Aliens are spying on us, their space probes would look like this, scientists say", written by Sarah Wells. Sarah reached out to the McCormack Laboratory for some materials insights for the article.
The McCormack Laboratory was just awarded $1.4 million to lead research on uncertainity quantification of ZrB2 manufacturing for hypersonic platforms. Check out the article from UC Davis
Scott McCormack was interviewed by Eileen De Guire for the ACerS podcast: Ceramic Tech Chat. They chatted about education, learning thermodynamics, and setting up a research program as a young professor. Check it out!
Check out this awesome article about UC Davis's College of Engineering's work in Space Engineering by Noah Pfueger-Peters which mentions the McCormack lab!