Question: Which university is older, Brown University or University of Southern California?
Context: Nicholas Clapp is a Borrego Springs, California based writer, film-maker, and amateur archaeologist.  He has often been called the "real Indiana Jones" and he has received 70 film awards (including Emmys), and several films that he edited have received Academy Award nominations.  He is a graduate of both Brown University and the University of Southern California, and he has worked for Disney, National Geographic Society, Columbia Pictures, PBS and the White House. Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The Journal of Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational biology and bioinformatics.  It was established in 1994 and is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The editors-in-chief are Sorin Istrail (Brown University) and Michael S. Waterman (University of Southern California).  According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.564. Julie Huber is an Associate Scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  She previously was an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at Brown University, an Associate Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the Associate Director of the MBL's Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution.  She also serves as the associate director of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, a National Science Foundation-supported program headquartered at the University of Southern California. California Southern University (previously called Southern California University for Professional Studies prior to June 2007 and formerly located in Anaheim, California) is a regionally accredited private independent university that began its operations in 1978.  It offers associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs 100% online in psychology, criminal justice, nursing, and law.  Recently California Southern University has started on campus programs in field of business administration including bachelors, masters, and doctorate level.  However, applicants can still study in both online and on campus mode.  Applicants can also apply for F1 visa to study on campus.  California Southern University is located in Costa Mesa, California.  It is not to be confused with Southern California College in Costa Mesa, California, an independent comprehensive coed institution established in 1920 and affiliated with Assemblies of God. Kaja Silverman (born September 16, 1947) is an American art historian and critical theorist.  She is currently the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Thereafter, she taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and for many years was the Class of 1940 Professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, and is currently the holder of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university located in Los Angeles, California.  Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California.  USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals.  In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim.  An engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. Michael V. Bhatia was born in Upland, California on August 23, 1976.  He attended Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in International Relations in 1999.  He was the recipient of the Herbert Scoville Jr.  Peace Fellowship and a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford where he earned his M.Sc.  in International Relations in 2002.  He was a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and a lecturer at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Hendler completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Brown University in 1986 with a thesis on automated planning and scheduling.  He also has an MS (1981) in Cognitive Psychology from Southern Methodist University, a MSc (1983) from Brown University, and a BS (1978) from Yale University. Immune Attack is an educational video game created by the Federation of American Scientists and Escape Hatch Entertainment.  Early development of the game was done by Brown University, in collaboration with the University of Southern California, under a grant from the National Science Foundation.  The game is designed to teach immunology to high school students, although later versions will cater to college aged students as well.
Answer: Brown University