Penn State is developing a new, all-in-one mobile campus app that administrators hope will better connect students to the university and help them discover campus events and services. The app will be named Penn State Go and is the product of a University-wide initiative to improve the student experience through increased access to key resources.

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.

University of Pennsylvania students have a new way to place mobile food orders on campus after the university’s dining services established an agreement with Transact to provide its Mobile Ordering app. Penn Dining launched the “Penn Eats” app at the start of the fall semester and will enable students to place orders from their mobile device and skip payment lines to head straight to pick up orders at both campus-run locations and the on-campus Starbucks.

Transact VP of New market Development, Jeff Staples talks about the Transact Mobile Credential and how campuses can begin to prepare for a deployment on their campus. Then hear from Transact Sr. Directory of Product Strategy, Kent Pawlak, as he explains a bit of what’s happening behind the scenes that makes Mobile Credential work so seamlessly.

Northeastern Illinois University has turned to Uber to provide a solution to its campus-to-campus student shuttle service. The university will leverage Uber’s voucher service to provide free transport, with a valid student ID card, for students needing to travel between NEIU campus locations for class.

The big mobile credential announcement last month was the emergence of CBORD as the second campus card system vendor to support mobile student IDs on Apple devices. As one of the first CBORD partnering campuses, the University of Vermont is now beta testing mobile credentials on Apple devices.