Mobile commerce app, Tapingo, has added the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to its extensive roster of higher education campuses. The launch at UIC also coincides with an expanded partnership with food-service provider, Chartwells.

Georgia Southern University is expanding the use of iris biometric access to include the campus’ state-of-the-art Recreation Activity Center. The expansion will has deploy an integrated access solution so only members can enter the facility.

As part of a pilot program beginning this semester, 300 Ohio University students will be outfitted with reusable takeout containers for use at campus dining halls in place of existing disposable, to-go boxes. The reusable containers are intended to reduce the number of disposable boxes sent to the landfill each year.

Campus card technology provider, CBORD, has today announced a partnership with mobile ordering company, Tapingo. The partnership enables all CBORD account holders to seamlessly implement Tapingo’s pickup and delivery services.

For most students, accessing the dining hall follows a fairly standard formula across the board: walk in the door, wait in line, swipe or tap your ID card at the POS, and walk in. That’s not the case at Fremont, Nebraska’s Midland University, though, where campus administrators and its food-service partner decided on a different dining hall experience with Lucova’s FIIT POE system.

One of the newer trends to emerge in campus dining has been the use of reusable takeout containers in dining halls to eliminate unnecessary waste tied to student use of plastic, paper or styrofoam to-go boxes. Now, in an effort to boost the campus’ sustainability efforts in dining facilities, some Vanderbilt students are calling for dining services to deploy the OZZI system.

The National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) has named mobile ordering and commerce application, Tapingo, as the winner of its Outstanding Business Partner of the Year Award.