Puzzle Competition Aids Professors' Research
Puzzles are all fun and games…most of the time. On a Saturday morning in August, they were also about team spirit, victory, new personal records, and research at the Northeast Regional Puzzle Competition held at the University of Hartford.
Assistant Professor of Psychology EB Caron helped bring the event to campus, having competed in many others herself and having used puzzling data in her statistics classes. Fox 61 previewed the event and dove deeper into the competitive puzzling world with Caron, a fellow event organizer, and local puzzler Julia Winer ’05.
Dozens of solo and team participants gathered on Aug. 12, in the Gengras Student Union, to vie for the title of fastest puzzlers, which was exciting for Caron, as well as Margaret Tarampi, Natasha Segool, and Wednesday Bushong, all fellow professors in the psychology department—they have joined Caron in research related to puzzling. The event gave them the chance to collect data and recruit participants for their work.