Toby Beauchamp (Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies) and Mimi Thi Nguyen (Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies), along with Aren Aizura (Associate Professor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota), received a three-year, $30,000 grant from the Big Ten Academic Alliance to build trans studies across the Big Ten schools. This grant will fund a cross-campus working group and annual events, focused on supporting pre-tenure faculty and graduate students and on developing trans studies scholarship, curriculum, and networks within the Big Ten.