By News staff
Providence Journal photo / Glenn Osmundson
Nuala Pell blows a kiss to an audience member Thursday night after being presented the Claiborne Pell Center Award at a celebration of her lifetime of public service, held at Salve Regina University in Newport. The school is establishing the Nuala Pell Leadership Program in Public Service in her honor. The wife of the late U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell is flanked, at left, by James M. Ludes, executive director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, and Jane Gerety, president of Salve Regina.