The Superior Dome is also host to a number of campus and community events, including Michigan High School Athletic Association football regular season and playoff games, trade shows ( approximately of space ), conventions, conferences, banquets, high school track meets, The Upper Peninsula " Band Day " competition / exhibition, Special Olympics, and NMU ’ s Commencement exercises, to name a few.

NMU leases the laptop computers and issues them to full-time students on a three-year replacement cycle ( a student will never have a computer more than three years old ).

The student athletes receive free or reduced room and board, access to world-class training facilities as well as sports medicine and sports science services, academic tutoring, and a waiver of out-of-state tuition fees by NMU.

Residence hall government is an important facet of student life and NMU.

The NMU Volunteer Center is designed to assist students, both individuals and in student organizations, as well as faculty and staff at the university with finding ways in which they can contribute to the Marquette community.

It engaged in a fierce struggle to undo wage cuts when miners struck in Pennsylvania and Ohio mines in 1931, but lost the strike when mine operators chose to recognize the UMW – which had not been involved in the strike – rather than the NMU, then obtained an injunction to prevent the NMU from picketing.

NMU has five academic divisions:

* The Superior Dome is the home to NMU athletic department.

The NMU football and other athletic teams play home games there.

Prior to assuming the presidency at NMU, Bailey was Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Maine as well as Vice President for Research and Public Service and Director of Cooperative Extension Service.

In addition to the residence halls, NMU operates and maintains seven apartment buildings on campus.

Northern Michigan University ( or NMU for short ) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Dating back to 1907 and originally located on the corner of Kaye and Presque Isle, the Heart of Northern was long a landmark of NMU.

When it opened its doors in 1899, NMU enrolled thirty-two students who were taught by six faculty members utilizing rented rooms in Marquette City Hall.

This initiative makes NMU one of the largest public university laptop programs in the world.

Northern ’ s campus-wide effort for technological mastery helps NMU students compete in the high-tech global marketplace after they graduate.

NMU is the first public university in Michigan — but one of many nationwide — to pursue the idea of a " laptop " campus.

NMU continues to support and improve " specialty labs " as a function of need and resource availability.

NMU v. MTU football game in the Superior Dome.

NMU ’ s Wildcats compete in the NCAA's Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in basketball, football, golf, skiing, cross country, soccer, volleyball, track & field, and swimming / diving.

Lloyd Carr, former head coach at the University of Michigan, former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, and Steve Mariucci, former head coach of the Detroit Lions, played football for NMU, and current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo played basketball at NMU.

The winner of the annual football game between NMU and Michigan Tech is awarded the Miner's Cup.

Athletes must be approved by the USOEC, their national governing body and NMU to be admitted into the program.

USOEC athletes attend NMU or Marquette Senior High School, Marquette, Michigan while training in their respective sports.

On-campus USOEC athletes live in NMU ’ s Meyland Hall, eat in campus dining halls, and train at the university ’ s Berry Events Center and Superior Dome.

The eastern Somali region ( Ogaden ) hosts a large nomadic Somali population and is a conflict area where Ethiopian regular forces are fighting against Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF ).

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Djibouti joined the Global War on Terror, and now hosts a large military camp, home to soldiers from many countries, but primarily the U. S.

The St. James Centre, at the eastern end of George Street and Princes Street, hosts a substantial number of national chains including a large John Lewis.

Typically, a host computer on the network runs the software that acts as a node, and it connects to other hosts running that same software to form a large distributed network of peer nodes.

Hanover also hosts one of the two largest Spring Festivals in Europe with around 180 rides and inns, 2 large beer tents and around 1. 5 million visitors each year.

In 2010, this large scale seagoing event hosts its 25th Silver Anniversary Cruise, with players from all over the States and Canada participating.

Liberal opinion radio has long existed on the Pacifica network, though only available in a small number of major cities, and in formats that more often act as a volunteer-run community forum than as a platform for charismatic hosts who would be likely to attract a large audience.

Tierra del Fuego hosts large areas protected as national parks and reserves, most of them in the mountainous south.

The city hosts a large Chinese community since the 1920s.

Brussels hosts most of the European Institutions, hence a large number of international think tanks are based there.

The community also hosts a large Independence Day fireworks celebration.

Every Saturday morning it hosts a large outdoor market or " mercadillo ", where many gypsies come and sell their wares of fruits and vegetables, clothes and shoes, and other odds and ends.

It hosts public gatherings, and several large annual events.

Atlantic cod act as intermediate, paratenic or definitive hosts to a large number of parasite species: 107 taxa listed by Hemmingsen and MacKenzie ( 2001 ) and seven new records by Perdiguero-Alonso et al.

At their new home, the Polanskis continued to be popular hosts for their large group of friends, although some of their friends still worried about the strange types who continued to show up at their parties.

Distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks are common, where a large number of compromised hosts ( commonly referred to as " zombie computers ", used as part of a botnet with, for example ; a worm, trojan horse, or backdoor exploit to control them.

Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown is the large multipurpose arena which hosts concerts, NHL exhibition games, and many of the city's pro sports teams.

The standard counterargument points to the large timespan that the mitochondria / plastids have co-existed with their hosts.

The large intestine hosts several kinds of bacteria that deal with molecules the human body is not able to break down itself.

Liverpool, England is home to a large LGBT population ( equivalent to the size of San Francisco's ), and as well as having an officially recognised gay quarter, the city hosts the annual Homotopia ( festival ), the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans combined arts organisation in the North of England.

A large part of Kenya is underlain by Precambrian basement, while the Kenya rift basin ( a typical extensional basin ) hosts Tertiary volcanics that cover Mesozoic sediments ( Recently these sediments have been considered for oil exploration ).

It also hosts large music concerts, in 2007 it featured Red Hot Chili Peppers and Genesis.

Dogs and medium-sized mammals are the preferred hosts of adult D. variabilis, although it feeds readily on other large mammals, including human beings.

This celebration hosts a large volume of tourists and former Lititz residents who return for the Queen of Candles pageant and the yearly fireworks gala supporting Lititz Springs Park.