The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University is pleased to welcome collaboration facilitator and strategist Kathleen Shannon as a visiting fellow in residence at the Pell Center this Spring. The Rhode Island Council for … Continue reading
Author Archives: Jim Ludes
Pell Center Wins Major Grant Award from Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
Award will Support Initiative to Examine the Role of Storytelling in Politics and Public Life Newport—The Pell Center at Salve Regina University has won a major grant award from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), an independent state … Continue reading
Pell Center Announces Fellows Program
The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy today announced the creation of a fellows program designed to drive the intellectual agenda and on-going research of the center located at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Drawing from faculty … Continue reading
Author James Carroll on Rhode Island’s and America’s Moral Charter
On Thursday October 18, 2012, Boston Globe columnist and author James Carroll spoke at the kick-off a multi-day planning session organized by the Pell Center, the Newport Historical Society, the John Carter Brown Library, the George Washington Institute for Religious … Continue reading
Event: Campaign 2012 Lecture and Debate Watch II
Campaign 2012 October 16, 2012 7:30 PM Bazarsky Lecture Hall – O’Hare Academic Center Salve Regina University Ochre Point Avenue (at the intersection with Shepard Avenue) Newport, RI RSVP to pellcenter@salve.edu or call (401) 341-2927 7:30 PM Lecture: Faithful Citizenship in … Continue reading
Opinion: Where’s the Dialogue on Climate?
Ten days ago, I had the good fortune of moderating a panel at the Association of Opinion Journalists in Orlando, Florida. The topic my colleagues and I were supposed to address was Climate and the Environment. As I prepared my … Continue reading
Afghanistan End Game: Event Report
On Wednesday, August 1, the Pell Center and Newport CIV jointly hosted an evening conversation with two prominent experts on the course of the war in Afghanistan. Dr. Bernard Finel of the National War College and Dr. Mark Jacobson of … Continue reading
Statement on the 40th Anniversary of the Pell Grant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Newport, RI—To mark the 40th anniversary of the Pell Grant, Dr. Jim Ludes, executive director of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University, issued the following statement: Forty years ago, in the middle of the Nixon Administration, … Continue reading

