This section documents my ongoing Fulbright work in Brazil
with a simple, commonsense,  research workflow:

Problem → Hypothesis → Test → Result → Learning

I’ll capture field notes offline, then load them into a Small Language Model to help organize text, video, teaching materials, and the AI apps I’m building.
The goal is to show AI is not a shortcut, but a serious research partner: helping scholars observe, test, adapt, teach, and create public value. 

This is not a travel vlog. It is a working field notebook.

 I am deeply grateful to the American public, the US Government, and the Fulbright Commission in the US and Brasil for affording me this prestigious honor. As a business professor I know there is "no free lunch".

Taxpayers must see a real return on investment (ROI) from Fulbright: research, teaching, tools, cultural exchange, and knowledge. By sharing my experience and that of other esteemed researchers, I aim to prove that Fulbright funding is a fantastic investment.

I always tell my students: if you have a questions about class, odds are so do your classmates - so just ask!

If People in Para, Brasill, or Porto in Portugal have concerns about AI, odds are so do People in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. This AI stuff may seem  "scary " and folks everywhere have similar legitimate concerns (example: AI is gonna take my job, it wastes water & electricity, etc.) But as a Gen X-er very familiar with technology adoption, this stuff is old hat (Remember the "You've got mail? from AOL). We are the generation that went from Walkman's to Wi-Fi.

For the Young and Young at Heart: Don't sweat this AI jazz.  Yeah it's here to stay, but so are we. Let's help each other and not reinvent the 'AI Wheel".

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