Boston University has launched a new meal swipe donation program that enables students to give unused meal swipes to fellow students in need. The project is called Terrier Meal Share, and after a soft launch this semester the project is already making waves on campus.

Starship Technologies’ march on college campuses continues this week, with the addition of the University of Houston to the company’s autonomous robot delivery service. The Starship robots will now deliver food and drinks from participating merchants to students on the Houston campus.

Starship Technologies has added another university to its growing list of campus clients, with the announcement that the University of Wisconsin-Madison will deploy the company’s robot delivery system on campus. UW-Madison will deploy a fleet of 30 Starship food delivery robots this week, and will open the delivery service to its 66,000 students faculty and staff from a roster of university-run, on-campus dining locations.

CBORD has announced a partnership with Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit organization working to end college student hunger. The pairing will offer students on CBORD campuses the option to donate meal swipes via the GET CBORD Student mobile app.

It’s been roughly two months since Starship Technologies and its band of roving, autonomous delivery robots arrived on the Purdue University campus. The excitement and intrigue of the initiative has settled, so what does the day-to-day operation look like?

Binghamton University has set an end-of-life date for its single use to-go containers on campus, with a planned implementation of the OZZI system in January. The move to OZZI’s reusable container system is driven by the university’s desire to boost its sustainability efforts and will provide every student on a campus board plan with a free buy-in to the program.

The University of North Georgia has launched mobile ordering from Transact, giving students the option to place food and drink orders from their smartphone and skip the line at pickup. Transact Mobile Ordering will enable UNG students to place orders at the Dahlonega campus’ Starbucks, Twisted Taco, and Einstein Bros. Bagels with additional campus food retailers to be added soon.

The University of Houston is joining the roster of early adopters to deploy delivery robots on campus. Houston will partner with Starship Technologies, the company behind the autonomous, wheeled robots now on university campuses across the country.

A new meal donation initiative has commenced at Vanderbilt University offering students the option to donate meal swipes to students in need. The program is enabling those grappling with food insecurity to apply for and receive up to five meals per week through the university’s dining services and financial aid departments.

Georgetown University’s fall semester meal-swipe drive managed to double the number of student donations it received last spring from 538 to 1,092. The program enables donation recipients to access swipes directly from their GOCards — Georgetown’s student ID card — in an effort to both increase participation in the program and make the process more discreet for those individuals facing food insecurity.