Emily I. Sobel ’11 (Asian Studies) presented a paper, “Little Brother and Sister are Watching: Youth-Directed Media Tools and Thought Work in Post-1989 Chinese News Media,” on March 15 at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies held in Toronto, Canada. AAS is the premier conference in North America for the field of Asian Studies, attracting scholars from around the world. Sobel’s paper grew out of her senior thesis for the Honors Program. It was developed as an independent study project in Asian Studies under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Schwartz (Political Science) as lead reader and Professor Kristine Harris (History) as second reader. This fall, SUNY New Paltz will host the New York Conference on Asian Studies, a regional annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, to be held on campus September 28-29.