Question: Which university is a research university, Syracuse University or Pacific Lutheran University?
Context: Aaron Padilla (born 1974) is an American artist and art educator.  He was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii in 1974.  He received a BFA in painting and printmaking from Pacific Lutheran University in 1996, and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2001.  Padilla has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawaii Potters’ Guild.  He is currently Director of Spalding House, a branch of the Honolulu Museum of Art.  He has created paintings and utilitarian ceramics, as well as abstract and semi-abstract ceramic sculptures.  In his current body of work, small angled pieces of wood are assembled to give the illusion of wood being woven or tied into knots. Pacific Lutheran High School is a private Lutheran high school located in Gardena, California.  It was founded in 1996 by Tim Warneke and Norb Huber as a satellite campus of South Bay Lutheran High School, Inglewood, which is now closed.  Pacific Lutheran High School was known as South Bay Lutheran High School from 1997 until 2003, when it separated from its sister campus and gained its own standing as an individual school. Bjug Harstad (December 17, 1848 – June 20, 1933) was a Lutheran pastor, founding president of Pacific Lutheran University, and first president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.  The institution's roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (later becoming Genesee College), founded in 1831 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York.  After several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was established in 1870, independent of the college.  Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church. Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) in Berkeley, California, is a seminary affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and California Lutheran University, and is a member school of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). Mike Dunbar (December 31, 1948 – September 13, 2013) was an American football and baseball coach.  He served as the head football coach at Central Washington University in 1983 and from 1987 to 1991 and at the University of Northern Iowa from 1997 to 2000, compiling a career college football coaching record of 83–24–1.  Dunbar was also the head baseball coach at Central Washington for one season, in 1983, tallying mark of 25–20–1.  He graduated from the University of Washington in 1972 with a B.A. in education and from Pacific Lutheran University in 1979 with an M.A. in education.  Dunbar died of cancer on September 13, 2013, in his hometown of Dupont, Washington, at the age of 64. Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, writer and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.  His areas of research interest include Egyptian archaeology, Polynesian archaeology, the history of archaeology, the history of exploration, ancient languages and scripts and experimental archaeology.  He is best known for his research in Egypt including excavations in the Valley of the Kings where he investigated the long-neglected undecorated tombs in the royal cemetery.  His work there resulted in the rediscovery of the lost and controversial tomb KV60, the re-opening of the long-buried KV21 with its two female and likely royal occupants, and tombs KV27, KV28, KV44, KV 45 and KV 48. Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), founded by Norwegian Lutheran pioneers in 1890, is a private university offering liberal arts and professional school programs located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, United States.  PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  PLU has approximately 3,100 students enrolled.  As of 2017, the school employs approximately 220 full-time professors on the 156-acre (630,000 m²) woodland campus. The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates.  Seven of the theological schools are located in Berkeley, California.  The GTU was founded in 1962 and has established a relationship with the University of California, Berkeley that allows students from both institutions enjoying privileges accorded to their own students.  Additionally, some of the GTU consortial schools are part of other California universities such as Santa Clara University (Jesuit School of Theology) and California Lutheran University (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary).  Most of the GTU consortial schools are located in Berkeley around the campus of University of California, Berkeley, with the majority north of the campus in a neighborhood known as "Holy Hill" due to the cluster of GTU seminaries and centers located there. Pacific Lutheran College is a co-educational K–12 Lutheran College under the Lutheran Church of Australia.  The school is located in Birtinya, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.  Pacific Lutheran College currently caters for 900 to 1000 students, after opening in 2001 as one of the newest Christian schools on the Sunshine Coast.
Answer: Syracuse University