Distinguished company: Two of the 10 plenary speakers at the big EcoSummit 2012 in Columbus will be from our college. The lineup includes not just our own Rattan Lal and Bill Mitsch, both of the School of Environment and Natural Resources, but UCLA’s Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Harvard’s E.O. Wilson (The Social Conquest of Earth), and Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson. Check it out.