Grants and publications. See my Curriculum Vitae for more, and Talks for slides and recordings.
Grants
BPC-DP: Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Groups Through the Computational Core Initiative ($299,998)
2022 - 2025
Co-PI - National Science Foundation grant to support developing curricula and teaching interventions targeted at rural students and other underrepresented groups.
CS4KS: Expanding the Cyber Pipeline Program ($748,000)
2023 - 2024
Co-PI - Renewal of Kansas Department of Education grant to provide training for high school teachers to teach computer science, including 10 graduate credit hours and support for previous cohorts.
CS4KS: Expanding the Cyber Pipeline Program ($467,656)
2022 - 2023
Co-PI - Kansas Department of Education grant to provide training for high school teachers to teach computer science, including 10 graduate credit hours.
KRIATE: K-State Rural Innovation Academy for Teaching Enrichment ($3,099,030)
2022 - 2027
Co-PI - Private grant to support rural Kansas K-12 teachers who teach computer science.
K-State Open/Alternative Textbook & K-State Global Campus Course Development Grants
2018 - 2021
I was part of a team that received internal grant funding to support the initial development of the Computational Core program and the associated online textbooks.
Peer Reviewed Papers & Posters
Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., & Feldhausen, R. (2027, February). Reconsidering the Primacy of Programming in Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the 58th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2027). Accepted for Publication.
Malallah, S., Shamir, L., Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., Osiobe, E. U., & James, F. E. (2026, June). AI-Play: A Framework for Teaching Artificial Intelligence Concepts through Unplugged Activities in Early Childhood Education. In 2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina. 10.18260/1-2--58648.
James, F. E., Weese, J. L., Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., Friend, M., & Malallah, S. (2026, June). TrackIt: An Interactive Rule-Based Tool for Detecting Struggling Programming Students. In 2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina. 10.18260/1-2--58843.
Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., & Weese, J. L. (2026, June). Learning Debt in Computing Education. In 2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina. 10.18260/1-2--59912.
Barron, J., Feldhausen, R., & Bean, N. H. (2026, February). Towards a Computer Science Ontology. In Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE TS 2026), St. Louis, MO, USA. 10.1145/3770762.3772566.
Malallah, S., Osiobe, E. U., Shamir, L., Weese, J. L., Bean, N. H., & Feldhausen, R. (2025, June). Developing a Virtual Worlds Framework for Early Childhood. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--56251.
Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., Friend, M., James, F. E., & Allen, D. S. (2025, June). Engaging Rural America in Computer Science: Understanding the Rural Context. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--56367.
Feldhausen, R., Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., & Allen, D. S. (2025, June). Examining Rural Identity Among High School Computer Science Students. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--56467.
James, F. E., Weese, J. L., Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., Friend, M., Stewart, R., Aponte, C. G., & Allen, D. S. (2025, June). Expanding Computer Science Education in Rural Areas: Impact of Teacher Training on Teachers’ Identity, Commitment, Confidence and Competence. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--56478.
James, F. E., Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., Bean, N. H., Friend, M., & Allen, D. S. (2025, June). From Typing to Insights: An Interactive Code Visualization and Error Detection for Enhanced Student Support Using Keystroke Data. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--56621.
Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., Allen, D. S., & Friend, M. (2025, February). Building the Cyber Pipeline: Providing CS Education For Rural K-12 Schools. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSETS 2025), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 10.1145/3641554.3701840.
Bean, N. H., James, F. E., Tucker, T., Theis, Y., Weese, J. L., & Feldhausen, R. (2025, February). Developing Computing Lessons for Rural High School Students. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSETS 2025), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 10.1145/3641554.3701843.
Feldhausen, R., Weese, J. L., & Bean, N. H. (2018, February). Increasing Student Self-Efficacy in Computational Thinking via STEM Outreach Programs. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '18), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 10.1145/3159450.3159593. Acceptance rate: 35%.
Weese, J. L., & Feldhausen, R. (2017, June). STEM Outreach: Assessing Computational Thinking and Problem Solving. In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--28845.
Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., & Bean, N. H. (2016, June). The Impact of STEM Experiences on Student Self-Efficacy in Computational Thinking. In 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26179.
Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., Feldhausen, R., & Bell, R. S. (2015, October). Starting from Scratch: Developing a Pre-service Teacher Training Program in Computational Thinking. In 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, TX, USA. 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344237.
Bean, N. H., Bell, R. S., & Feldhausen, R. (2015, April). Scratching the Surface: First Steps in Preservice Teacher Training on Computational Thinking. In Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA '15), Chicago, Illinois. http://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository.
Feldhausen, R., Bell, R. S., & Andresen, D. A. (2014, July). Minimum Time, Maximum Effect: Introducing Parallel Computing in CS0 and STEM Outreach Activities Using Scratch. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14), Atlanta, GA, USA. 10.1145/2616498.2616568. Acceptance rate: 67%.
Feldhausen, R., Bell, R. S., & Andresen, D. A. (2013, November). Introducing HPC to Young Students. In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC13), Denver, Colorado. Poster. Acceptance rate: 39%.
Other Selected Papers, Posters, and Sessions
Allen, D. S., Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., Friend, M., Weese, J. L., Malallah, S., & Wood, A. J. (2026, July). The Impact of Technology on Teacher Education: Research and Strategies for Digital Proficiency in Pre-Service Teachers. In Snow, J., Byrd, D., & McIntyre, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Teacher Education: Problems of Practice. Fourth Edition. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. 10.4324/9781003543503-45.
James, F. E., Weese, J. L., Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., Allen, D. S., & Friend, M. (2026, February). TrackIt: An Interactive Rule-Based Tool for Detecting Struggling Programming Students. In Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2026), St. Louis, MO, USA. 10.1145/3770761.3777330.
James, F. E., Feldhausen, R., Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., Allen, D. S., & Friend, M. (2025, February). From Typing to Insights: An Interactive Code Visualization for Enhanced Student Support Using Keystroke Data. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSETS 2025), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 10.1145/3641555.3705188.
Schwartz, M., Bean, N. H., Weese, J. L., & Feldhausen, R. (2024, March). Bringing a Visual Memory Model to VS Code. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024), Portland, OR, USA. 10.1145/3626253.3635434.
Friend, M., Rosato, J., Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., & Weese, J. L. (2024, March). Creating University CS Teacher Preparation Programs. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024), Portland, OR, USA. 10.1145/3626253.3635388.
Bean, N. H., Feldhausen, R., Weese, J. L., & Friend, M. (2024, March). Engaging Rural Populations in Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024), Portland, OR, USA. 10.1145/3626253.3635365.
Feldhausen, R. (2018, May). Mission to Mars: A Computer Science Curriculum for Middle School STEM Camps. Master's thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38864.
Feldhausen, R., Bell, R. S., & Andresen, D. A. (2013, September). Introducing HPC and Multi-Threaded Computing to Middle School Girls Using Scratch. In 2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Salina, KS. 10.18260/1-2-1153-51203. Poster.
3rd Place Award for Best Graduate Poster