Question: Which is the youngest university to become a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, the University of California, Irvine or the University of Bridgeport?

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High School attached to Tsinghua University: Tsinghua University High School (), or Tsinghua High School for short (), is a high school in China, located in Beijing.  Based on its current status, a more precise translation should be 'The secondary school affiliated to Tsinghua University'.  In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American universities, Tsinghua University High School ranked number 10 in mainland China in terms of the number of students entering top American universities.

Irvine Valley College: Irvine Valley College (also known as IVC or Irvine Valley) is a community college in Irvine, California, and is a part of the California Community Colleges System.  The college inherited its name from the Irvine family and the Irvine Company that were key in the development of the city of Irvine.  Opened in 1979 as Saddleback College North Campus, Irvine Valley College received its current name and independent status in July 1985.  In July 1988, the college received its first accreditation as a separate institution by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.  The school provides two-year associate of art and science degrees, certificates of achievement, and lower-division transferable courses to other colleges and universities.  It is a mid-size college campus having over 14,000 students.  It is situated northeast of the University of California, Irvine and adjacent to the Irvine Spectrum Business Sector.  It is less than 2 miles away from the 5 Freeway, the 405 Freeway, and the Irvine Spectrum Center.  The school is also about 10 miles from Corona del Mar State Beach, Balboa Island, and Laguna Beach.

Center for Measuring University Performance: The Center for Measuring University Performance is a research center at Arizona State University.  "The Center" is best known for an annual report it produces, The Top American Research Universities, that ranks American universities on nine different measures: Total Research, Federal Research, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, National Academy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted, Postdoctoral Appointees, and SAT/ACT range.  The center also produces other scholarly works on ranking and education quality.  The raw data used by the researchers at "The Center" is made available to the public on the web.  This ranking's influence within the academic community has been described as being "commonly regarded to be one of three indicators that reflect an institution's rank as a Tier One institution", the other two being the classification of a university with "very high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and membership within the Association of American Universities.

Maynooth University: The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) (Irish: "Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad" ), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.  It is Ireland's youngest university as it was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 from the secular faculties of the now separate St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which was founded in 1795.  Maynooth is also the only university town in Ireland.

Academic regalia of Stanford University: The academic regalia of Stanford University describes the robes, gowns, and hoods which are prescribed by the university for its graduates.  Stanford University was founded in 1891 and academic dress has been a part of academic life at the school since at least 1899.  As in most American universities, the academic dress found at Stanford is derived from that of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which was a development of academic and clerical dress common throughout the medieval universities of Europe.  Today, also in common with most American universities, academic regalia is commonly seen only at graduation ceremonies.  For most of its academic dress, Stanford follows the Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume which was devised in 1895 and sets out a detailed uniform scheme of academic regalia.  Stanford does make use of a distinct robe for its PhD graduates which was unique among American institutions of higher education in being based specifically on the doctoral robes of the University of Cambridge (until 2005, when Vanderbilt University adopted a similar design).

Iowa State University: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public flagship land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.  It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the 3rd largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference.  Iowa State is classified as a Research University with very high research activity (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  Iowa State is also a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), which consists of 62 leading research universities in North America.  Iowa State has also been designated an "Innovation and Economic Prosperity University," a designation awarded to only 54 public universities in the U.S.

University of California, Irvine: The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.  UC Irvine offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 graduate and professional degrees.  The university is designated as having very high research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in fiscal year 2013 had $348 million in research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation.  UC Irvine became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to hold membership.

Constantine W. Curris: Constantine W. "Deno" Curris is an American educator who, at 32, became the youngest university president in Kentucky history.  He held that office at three universities for a total of 26 years, after which he became president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities an organization of more than 400 colleges and universities.  The New York Times said that Curris “is a strong advocate for higher education and its students and a proponent of the qualitative strengthening of public higher education institutions in order to meet public needs and expectations in the 21st century.”

University Council for Educational Administration: The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is a leading nonprofit, research-oriented, institutional-only member organization dedicated to improving the profession of educational administration.  The organization was founded at Columbia University in the City of New York in 1954 by a group of fifteen universities concerned about the advancing the quality of educational leadership professionals and the state of the field.  Today, membership includes almost 100 member schools, mostly from the United States, but also universities in Australia and Hong Kong.  Many of the public universities in the Association of American Universities are also members of the UCEA.  The organization is also notable for publishing the "Educational Administrative Quarterly", one of the leading research journals dedicated to educational administration.

University of Bridgeport: The University of Bridgeport, commonly referred to as UB, is a private, independent, non-sectarian, coeducational National university located on the Long Island Sound in the South End neighborhood of Bridgeport, Connecticut.  The University is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC-CIHE).  The University is known for its diverse student population, currently ranking as the tenth most racially diverse national university in the country by "U.S. News & World Report".  The students of the University of Bridgeport are from 80 countries and 46 states.  In 2010, the percentage of students graduating that had participated in an English as a foreign or second language (ESL) program was one of the nation's highest at 5%.

Supporting paragraphs: University of California, Irvine University of Bridgeport
Answer: University of California, Irvine