A new viral marketing campaign from popular point-of-sale systems provider, Square, Inc., is paying Indiana University students for their participation in a social media driven promotion. The promo requests that students download Square’s Cash App, snap a photo of their student ID card and send that photo to a specified phone number in exchange for a small cash reward.

Temple University is the next campus to launch Blackboard Mobile Credential, the solution that enables Apple iPhones and Watch, as well as Android devices, to make the full range of on-campus transactions. Temple’s installation will enable students, faculty and staff to access to campus buildings, fitness facilities and dining centers with their mobile devices in the same fashion as they did previously with a plastic OWLcard.

George Mason University is now the first academic institution to deploy autonomous robots for the purpose of delivering food to students. George Mason’s 40,000 students, faculty and staff can access the Starship Deliveries app to order food and drinks to be delivered anywhere on campus within minutes.

The Identification Systems Group has announced a new partnership with mobile credential solutions provider Safetrust. The partnership will now offer both door and logical access control solutions via mobile credential management to ISG members in the US and Canada.

Students at Ohio State University now have the ability to donate meals to those in need thanks to an initiative with mobile ordering platform, Tapingo. The mobile platform is being offered as an extension and alternative means to navigate the donation process.

A Cornell University Design & Tech Initiative plans to launch a mobile app that can inform students of the foot traffic at key campus locations like dining halls and libraries. The app uses an algorithm that leverages student ID card swipes and historical data to approximate the traffic of each location.

Tapingo is a mobile food ordering app geared toward the college and university space. Hear from the company’s director of business development, Ben Anderson, as he delves into the features of the service and how students can benefit from mobile ordering in today’s campus environment.