Educating Character Initiative

Every minute counts when a donor organ is being transported for a transplant surgery.  Historically, donor organs — usually stored on ice in coolers — have a limited window before they become unusable....

Southern Methodist University in University Park will use a nearly $500,000 grant to establish a program that weaves character development into undergraduate education.

SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility said it received the grant, the largest in its history, from the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....