Question: When was the University of which the Whiting School of Engineering, is part, founded ?

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Alex Szalay: Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.  Szalay is an international leader in astronomy, cosmology, the science of big data, and data‐intensive computing.

Richard S. Potember: Richard S. Potember is an American scientist and inventor.  He is currently a Principal Systems Engineer at MITRE.  Prior to this he was a Program Manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  He has been an instructor at the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University since 1987.  He was a member of the Principle Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD from 1981 to 2015.  He served as an Adjunct Professor at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced  International Studies  from 1995-1998.  He is best known for his pioneering work in developing electrical and optical materials and devices, as well as for his biomedical and biodefense research.

Whiting School of Engineering: The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, is a division of the Johns Hopkins University located in the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

T.E. Schlesinger: T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger is an American engineer and physicist and since January 2014 has served as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.  Previously he was the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, where he was also Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005-2013).  At Carnegie Mellon he served as the Director of the DARPA Center for MEMS Instrumented Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISCIC), was the founding Director of the General Motors Collaborative Research Lab, was Associate Head of ECE (1996-2003), and was the Director of the Data Storage Systems Center (2004-2005).

Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center: The Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center (CPIAC) is one of several United States Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored Information Analysis Centers (IACs), administered by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).  CPIAC is the oldest IAC, having been in continuous operation since 1946 when it was founded as the Rocket Propellant Information Agency as part of the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory.  Currently CPIAC is operated by The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering.  IACs are part of the DoD’s Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) prescribed by DoD Directive 3200.12 and are chartered under DoD Instruction 3200.14-E5.

Ilene Busch-Vishniac: Ilene Busch-Vishniac is an American-born mechanical engineer and university administrator.  She served as Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from 1998 to 2003.  then resigned the position to serve as President of the Acoustical Society of America, an elected non-gratis position, from 2003 to 2005.  She served as Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at McMaster University from 2007 to 2012, and as President of the University of Saskatchewan from 2012 to 2014.  She has written research papers for the ASME on matters related to tribology.

Mary Zappone: Mary Slagle Zappone (born July 15, 1964), daughter of James Robert Slagle, is an American businesswoman notable for her achievements in business transformation and encouraging women in STEM.  Zappone sits on the Board of Directors of financial technology firm Blucora and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Service Champ, the largest distributor of consumable automotive aftermarket maintenance parts.  She has held previous appointments as CEO of RecoverCare LLC, engagement manager at McKinsey and Company, President at Alcoa, Vice President at Tyco International, in addition to roles at General Electric and ExxonMobil.  She has held positions on notable private boards including Supplies Over Seas, American Heart Association, and continues to sit on Johns Hopkins University's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering.

Rong Li: Rong Li is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering.  She is also the Director of the Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.  She is a leader in understanding cellular asymmetry, division and evolution, and specifically, in how eukaryotic cells establish their distinct morphology and organization in order to carry out their specialized functions.

Johns Hopkins University: The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins) is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.  Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins.  His $7 million bequest—of which half financed the establishment of Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at that time.  Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research.  Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.

Denis Wirtz: Denis Wirtz is the Vice Provost for Research and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Science at Johns Hopkins University.  He is an expert in the molecular and biophysical mechanisms of cell motility and adhesion and nuclear dynamics in health and disease.  Notably, he was the first to establish how a 3-dimensional environment fundamentally affects the way cancer cells migrate, providing more biologically and medically-relevant information than 2D studies.  He also pioneered the technique of particle-tracking microrheology to probe the rheological properties of complex fluids and living cells and tissues.  He is a professor in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering, and in the Departments of Oncology and Pathology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Supporting paragraphs: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Answer: 1876