Community building, outreach, and service 

2025

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) tutors incarcerated students in math and writing through the Education Justice Project. 

Theresa Saxton-Fox helped develop and now leads a program at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, where mathematically strong incarcerated students teach basic math (fractions and decimals) to less mathematically educated incarcerated students through the Education Justice Project. 

TSF was the chair of Aero's Space to Belong, a department committee.

TSF is the co-chair of a NATO Advanced Vehicle Technology working group, studying the separation of turbulent flows from smoothly curving surfaces.

2024

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) tutored incarcerated students in math and writing through the Education Justice Project. 

Theresa Saxton-Fox helped develop and lead a program at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, where mathematically-strong incarcerated students teach basic math (fractions and decimals) to less mathematically-educated incarcerated students through the Education Justice Project. 

TSF was the chair of Aero's Space to Belong, a department committee focused on inclusion and belonging. 

Fall 2023

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) tutored incarcerated students in math and writing through the Education Justice Project. She presented on her work with this group at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in November 2023.

TSF led a Strategic Instructional Innovations Program grant for Inclusive Teaching, looking to identify teaching approaches that are backed up by literature that could be better leveraged in the college.

TSF was the chair of Aero's Space to Belong, a department committee focused on inclusion and belonging. 

TSF was the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Summer 2023

Theresa Saxton-Fox helped develop and lead a program at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, where mathematically-strong incarcerated students teach basic math (fractions and decimals) to less mathematically-educated incarcerated students through the Education Justice Project. 

A team of women graduate students including Aadhy Parthsarathy (with TSF as faculty advisor) presented a paper at ASEE on their efforts in the prior year to develop and run a year-long orientation program for new women and gender minority graduate students in the Grainger College of Engineering. 

Spring 2023

Aadhy Parthasarathy was in the leadership of a GIANT grant funded by the IDEA institute, leading a new orientation for incoming graduate students who identify as women or as other marginalized gender identities (Graduate Orientation for Women: GROW). Theresa Saxton-Fox was the faculty advisor for the effort.

Theresa Saxton-Fox won the College Award for Leadership or Institutional Impact in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) was the chair of "Aero's Space to Belong," the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee for the Aerospace Engineering department. 

TSF tutored at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, as part of the Writing and Math Partners program through the Education Justice Project. 

TSF was the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Fall 2022

Aadhy Parthasarathy was in the leadership of a GIANT grant funded by the IDEA institute, leading a new orientation for incoming graduate students who identify as women or as other marginalized gender identities (Graduate Orientation for Women: GROW). Theresa Saxton-Fox was the faculty advisor for the effort.

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) was the chair of "Aero's Space to Belong," the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee for the Aerospace Engineering department. 

TSF tutored at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, as part of the Writing and Math Partners program through the Education Justice Project. 

TSF was the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics.

TSF gave seminars at Penn State and UC Irvine.

Spring 2022

Aadhy Parthasarathy was a co-PI on a GIANT grant funded by the IDEA institute to create a new orientation for incoming graduate students who identify as women or as other marginalized gender identities (Graduate Orientation for Women: GROW).

TSF co-moderated a panel discussion about the Tuskegee Airmen, co-sponsored by the Department of Aerospace Engineering, the Department of African American Studies, and the Minorities in Aerospace club.

TSF was interviewed by Vox about the aerodynamics of ski jumping for a video.

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) was the chair of "Aero's Space to Belong," the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee for the Aerospace Engineering department. 

TSF tutored at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, as part of the Writing and Math Partners program through the Education Justice Project. 

TSF was a faculty mentor for MAero. 

Fall 2021

Theresa Saxton-Fox (TSF) was the chair of the new diversity committee for the Aerospace Engineering department. 

TSF tutored at Danville Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Illinois, as part of the Writing and Math Partners program through the Education Justice Project. 

Elizabeth Torres De Jesus spoke on a panel at her home university about getting fellowships. She also helped with the department's introduction to the MERGE program.

TSF was a faculty mentor for MAero. 

Fall 2020

Dr. Saxton-Fox co-founded the Minorities in Aerospace (MAero) group, an organization that supports Black, Hispanic, Latino/a, and Native American members of the Aerospace Engineering department at UIUC. Elizabeth Torres De Jesus joined and became part of the leadership of the organization, leading the development of a mentorship program.

Dr. Saxton-Fox joined the Diversity Committee of the Grainger College of Engineering and led the Undergraduate Diversity Subcommittee. She also joined the Alumni Board Diversity Committee of the Aerospace Engineering Department.

The Turbulent Dynamics Research Group teamed up with two other groups in Aerospace and one group in Mechanical Science and Engineering to do a wellness competition, letting graduate students get to know one another while staying healthy during COVID.