Question: When was the university of which Reed College is a part founded?

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Roger Hobbs: Roger John Hobbs was born June 10, 1988 in Boston as the only son of Randy and Renee Hobbs.  He attended elementary school in Harvard, MA and graduated from Conestoga High School in the Tredyffrin-Easttown school district, a suburb of Philadelphia.  Roger was a masterful storyteller who achieved considerable success in the craft of writing at an early age.  While still in high school, Roger’s one-act play, “Not Another Divine Comedy” won the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and was performed by the Open Stage Company in 2007.  His essay on growing up with online media, “Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend,” was published by the New York Times in 2008.  Roger developed his interest in the noir genre at Reed College, where he graduated with a major in English in 2011.  He wrote his senior thesis on the narratology of suspense in the mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Knapp.  Roger’s friends also knew him as a talented composer and performer of tabletop role-playing games, including Eon, which was played at Reed College from 2007 to 2013.

Chamber Music Northwest: Chamber Music Northwest is an American non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon that is dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music.  The organization's main presentation is an annual five-week summer festival that occurs during the months of June and July.  Performances are held at the Kaul Auditorium on the campus of Reed College and in Lincoln Hall at Portland State University.  The organization also presents individual chamber music concerts throughout the year as part of their Encore Series.  The organization regularly features many of the world's greatest performers and has been featured on NPR's "Performance Today".  It was founded in 1971 by violinist Sergiu Luca.  Since 1981, its artistic director has been clarinetist David Shifrin.

Portland State University: Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university located in the southwest University District of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.  It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans.  It evolved into a four-year college over the following two decades, and was granted university status in 1969.  It is the only public urban university in the state of Oregon that is located in a major metropolitan city, and is governed by a board of trustees.

Reed College: Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.  Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center.

Arthur H. Livermore: Arthur Hamilton Livermore (August 14, 1915 – October 12, 2009) was a science educator, He was educated at Reed College in Portland and in the University of Rochester in New York, where he worked on the synthesis of penicillin under Vincent du Vigneaud, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in chemistry.  He obtained a Ph D in Chemistry in 1944.  He taught biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College to 1963.  He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 for work in Molecular & Cellular Biology.

Murray Leaf: Murray John Leaf (born June 1, 1939) is an American social and cultural anthropologist.  He was born in New York City in 1939, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona.  After active duty for training in the United States Army Reserves in 1957, he attended the University of Arizona and Reed College, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy from Reed in 1961.  He received a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1966.  He has taught at Pomona College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Dallas.

Peter Steinberger: Peter James Steinberger is a professor of political philosophy at Reed College.  He was the thirteenth president of Reed College, preceding Colin Diver.

Reed Arts Week: Reed Arts Week (RAW) is a celebration of the arts at Reed College, a liberal arts institution in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.  It includes music, dance, theater, films, creative writing and the visual arts.  In addition to student performances, major artists perform original works and participate in master class work with members of the Reed College community.  Visiting artists have included Karen Finley (2001), The Yes Men (2003), Tao Lin (2009), Chris Kraus (2012), and Antoine Catala (2014).  RAW was conceived by professors David Schiff and Maeera Schreiber in 1990 as a weekend that would highlight the visual and performing arts at the college.  It originally began as a weekend, but soon grew into a weeklong annual festival celebrated in February or March.

Reed Research Reactor: The Reed Research Reactor (RRR) is a research nuclear reactor located on-campus at Reed College in Portland, OR.  It is a pool-type TRIGA Mark I reactor, built by General Atomics in 1968 and operated since then under licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  Maximum thermal output is 250 kW.  The reactor has over 1,000 visitors each year and serves the Reed College departments of Physics, Chemistry, and others.

Colin Diver: Colin Diver was the president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.  He was named the college's 14th president on October 5, 2002, replacing acting president Peter Steinberger, dean of Faculty, and succeeding Steven Koblik, who departed Reed College to run the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.  In June 2011, Diver announced that he would step down in 2012, after 10 years of service to the college.

Supporting paragraphs: Chamber Music Northwest Portland State University
Answer: 1946