04/03/2003

Helen Glover, the Navy swim instructor from Middletown who made it to the final four in last season's Survivor: Thailand, has got a series of public appearances lined up.

She'll present a seminar on applying her survival techniques in a business environment at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce Business Expo at the Rhode Island Convention Center on April 9. On June 15, Glover will be the commencement speaker at Middletown High School.

The Federation of Republican Women has engaged Glover to speak at a June fundraiser, and she'll talk to the Raytheon Employees Organization in July.

On July 27, she'll be at Goddard Park in Warwick to encourage participants in the Easter Seals "Walk with Me" fundraiser.

Also on her schedule are some appearances outside Rhode Island, including an AIDS fundraiser in Lincoln, Neb., June 13-14 and a cystic fibrosis event in Omaha, Neb., June 27-29.

Glover can be heard Friday mornings on WSNE-FM, offering analysis of this season's Survivor. She wrote a column for the Providence Journal that followed the progress of North Attleboro contestant Jeanne Hebert, who was voted off the show March 13.

-- ANDY SMITH

Despite the movie A Beautiful Mind, the mathematician's life is not usually regarded with a lot of excitement. A documentary called The Math Life from Channel 36 is trying to change that. The station is airing the show tonight at 8 p.m.

Among those interviewed for the show, which aims to break the stereotype of the geeky math genius, is David Mumford, professor at Brown University's Department of Applied Mathematics.

-- ANDY SMITH