Since 2008, the number of physics undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara has jumped from 34 to 153. For a small department, that kind of growth is astronomical. But with a graduate program consistently ranked among the top 10 in the country, and where research areas include the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the observation of what appears to be the long sought-after Higgs boson, it may be no surprise. Read the full story here: ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=3036