Question: Which was founded first, The University of Alaska Fairbanks or The University of Alabama?
Context: Thomas Neil Davis (February 1, 1932 – December 10, 2016) was a professor of geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books.  Born in Greeley, Colorado, Davis received his B.S in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1955, an M.S. in geophysics from California Institute of Technology in 1957, and a Ph.D in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1961.  Davis spent most of his working career at the Geophysical Institute, pioneering the use of all-sky and low-level light cameras for the study of the aurora borealis and conducting rocket studies of the aurora.  With Masahisa Sugiura (while both were at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) he introduced the AE (auroral electrojet) index now commonly used as a measure of solar-terrestrial interaction.  A student of Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter at Caltech, he also has done work in observational seismology. The Georgeson Botanical Garden is located at 117 West Tanana Drive on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.  The five acre garden hosts a variety of research and educational programs in subarctic horticulture.  It is open to the public during daylight hours, May through September, for a fee.  It is part of the Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.  The garden was named after Charles Christian Georgeson, who was USDA Special Agent in Charge of Alaska Investigations in 1899.  Dr. Georgeson arrived in Alaska during the Gold Rush to research the possibilities for agriculture in Alaska.  He surveyed the land near Fairbanks and started the Fairbanks Experiment Farm.  A portion of the land was later annexed for use as the first campus of the University of Alaska. The University of Alaska Fairbanks (also referred to as UAF or Alaska) is a public research university in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.  It is a flagship campus of the University of Alaska System.  UAF is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution, and it also participates in the sun-grant program through Oregon State University.  UAF was established in 1917 and opened for classes in 1922.  UAF was originally named Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines and later as the University of Alaska from 1925 to 1975. The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), also known as "Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and Museum", formerly known as the "Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center" (or "Facility"), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan Athabaskan of the region) culture centrally located in Bethel, Alaska near the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kuskokwim Campus and city offices.  The center is a unique facility that combines a museum, a library, and multi-purpose cultural activity center including performing arts space, for cultural gatherings, feasts, celebrations, meetings and classes.  and that celebrates the Yup'ik culture and serves as a regional cultural center for Southwest Alaska.  The name of "Yupiit Piciryarait" means "Yup'iks' customs" in Yup'ik language and derived from "piciryaraq" meaning "manner; custom; habit; tradition; way of life" Construction of this cultural facility was completed in 1995, funded through a State appropriation of federal funds.  Total cost for construction was $6.15 million.  The center was jointly sponsored by the Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and at the present the center operated by the UAF's Kuskokwim Campus, AVCP and City of Bethel.  The building houses three community resources: the Consortium Library, the Yup'ik Museum, and the Multi-purpose room or auditorium.  The mission of the center is promote, preserve and develop the traditions of the Yup'ik through traditional and non-traditional art forms of the Alaska Native art, including arts and crafts, performance arts, education, and Yup'ik language.  The center also supports local artists and entrepreneurs. The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System.  Founded in 1820, UA is the oldest and largest of the public universities in Alabama.  UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degrees.  The only publicly supported law school in the state is at UA.  Other academic programs unavailable elsewhere in Alabama include doctoral programs in anthropology, communication and information sciences, metallurgical engineering, music, Romance languages, and social work. Farmers Loop is a census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States, one of several CDPs created out of various Fairbanks suburbs and outskirts during the 2010 census, at which time it had a population of 4,853.  The CDP is located due north of Fairbanks and is centered on and named for Farmers Loop Road, a road that runs along the foothills north of Fairbanks between the Steese Highway and the northeastern corner of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) was from 1993 to 2015 a research facility organized under the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) campus, the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) offered high-performance computing (HPC) and mass storage to the UAF and State of Alaska research communities.  Funding for ARSC operations was primarily supplied by UAF, with augmentation through external grants and contracts from various sources such as the National Science Foundation and Lockheed Martin (through the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program.) Dan O'Neill (Daniel T. O'Neill) is an Alaskan writer.  Born in San Francisco, California, in 1950, Dan O'Neill came to Alaska in the 1970s.  Settling in Fairbanks, he did a variety of things, such as building log cabins, dog mushing, working as a laborer, conducting oral history interviews, and as a producer of radio, television, and video productions dealing with history, science, and politics.  Now a full-time writer, he is the author of three Alaskan themed books.  From 1985-1995 he worked for the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, including doing project interviews about the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, digitized at Project Jukebox.  These interviews formed the basis of his book "A Land Gone Lonesome," which was awarded an "Editor's Choice" at "The" New York Times Book Review.  He was an opinion columnist for the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner" from 1998–2002.  O'Neill twice won the Alaska Library Associations's "Alaskana of the Year Award" for the best book on Alaska published anywhere.  He also was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society.  In 2015, the University of Alaska Press published his first book for children, "Stubborn Gal: The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer." University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service is an outreach-based educational delivery system supported by a partnership between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).  The UAF Cooperative Extension Service annually serves approximately 80,000 Alaskans, “providing a link between Alaska's diverse people and communities by interpreting and extending relevant university, research-based knowledge in an understandable and usable form to the public.”  Since 1930 the UAF Extension Service has partnered with many organizations across the state of Alaska in pursuit of fulfilling its land-grant university mission to disseminate agricultural research and other scientific information. West Valley High School (WVHS) is a public high school in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, one of four standalone high schools and one of ten schools offering instruction in grades nine through twelve in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.  Physcially located adjacent to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) campus in the census-designated place boundaries of College, WVHS and crosstown rival Lathrop High School cover a combined attendance area encompassing the majority of the urban core and outskirts of Fairbanks, with WVHS's attendance area serving the westernmost portions of that area.  The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development reported the school's enrollment at 1,027 on October 1, 2015.  The school mascot is the Wolfpack and its colors are red and gold.  WVHS is highly regarded as a school that possesses one of the most rigorous educational experiences that can be found anywhere in the state of Alaska.  Teachers, students, and administrators have received a myriad of awards that have confirmed West Valley's position as a prideful and genuine educationally advanced institution.
Answer: The University of Alabama