Question: What year was the university founded where Stuart Pimm was awarded a PhD in Ecology?

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Vartika Mathur: Vartika Mathur (27 August 1979, New Delhi, India) is an assistant professor in the Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.  Dr. Mathur was the only Indian to have received the prestigious NFP fellowship in 2008 from Nuffic - an organization in partnership with Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands) and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  This fellowship enabled her to pursue a PhD in Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Professors Louise Vet and Nicole van Dam.  She worked in the Netherlands and India for four years and was awarded a PhD in 2012.  Dr. Mathur was awarded the European Mobility grant for International Laureates by the International Doctoral College of the European University of Brittany (CDI-UEB) in 2010 to perform research in University of Rennes, France.  She has been awarded the "Young scientist of the year award 2015" in the field of chemical ecology by the International Foundation of Environment and Ecology.  Dr. Mathur is the host supervisor for a six-month Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS) for Melesse Anjulo Tora (2014-2015) from Ethiopia and Jean Augustin Rubabura Kituta (2015-2016) from DRC Congo funded by NAM S&T Centre.  Dr. Mathur has been running independent animal-plant interactions research lab since 2011 at Sri Venkateswara College and has supervised four research projects (one ongoing) as principal investigator and two projects as co-investigator (one ongoing) since 2008.  Dr. Mathur has several publications in various international and national peer-reviewed journals, with a total impact of 17.66.  She has authored an ecology book for undergraduate students.  She has given oral and poster presentations in several international and national conferences and symposiums.  She has been the associate editor for "Biojournal" since 2013 and a reviewer in several international journals of high repute.

Epoka University: Epoka University (EU) is a private non-profit university founded in 2007 in Tirana, Albania.  The university received accreditation by the Albanian Agency for Accreditation of Higher Education in 2011.  It offers Bachelor, Master of Science, Professional Master and PhD degrees.  There are six PhD programs that are administered solely by Epoka staff in: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Economics, Political Science and International Relations and Business Administration.  It offers a joint degree with Leeds Metropolitan University.

Stuart Pimm: Pimm was born in Derbyshire, United Kingdom.  He was educated at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD in Ecology from New Mexico State University in 1974.

David Beerling: Beerling was educated at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany in 1987 followed by a PhD in 1990 for research into the biogeography, ecology and control of two important and highly invasive alien plant species Japanese knotweeed "Reynoutria japonica" and Himalayan balsam "Impatiens glandulifera".  His PhD was supervised by Ron Walter Edwards CBE and he authored two ecological monographs on these importance species and scientific papers reporting simulated projections of their potential future distributions in Europe with global climate change. <ref /ref> </ref>

Józef Motyka: Józef Motyka (23 March 1900 – 6 July 1984) was a Polish botanist and lichenologist.  He obtained his PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for his studies on the ecology of saxicolous lichens (growing on or living among rocks) in Europe.  Afterwards, he spent several years researching the large lichen genus "Usnea", culminating in the publication of a two-volume monograph during 1936–38.  During the Second World War he was employed in the Botanical Garden in Lwow.  In 1944 he returned to his birthplace, Kąclowa, and began teaching at the Gymnasium in nearby Grybów.  A year later Motyka was appointed as Director of the Plant Geography and Systematics department at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and soon after became an Associate Professor.  For the next decade he worked largely on the distribution and ecology of vascular plants.

Hanna Kokko: Hanna Kokko (born 1971) is a scientist, working in the field of evolution and ecology.  She was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Helsinki University, Finland, and at the Australian National University as a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology.  She is currently Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Zürich.  She has been awarded the 2010 Per Brinck Oikos Award and the British Ecological Society's Founder's Prize.  Her move to Australia followed her appointment as an Australian Laureate Fellow.  She was also made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014.

Margaret Kidwell: Margaret Gale Kidwell (born August 17, 1933) is a British American evolutionary biologist and Regents’ Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, Tucson.  She grew up on a farm in the English Midlands during World War II.  After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 1953, she worked in the British Civil Service as an Agricultural Advisory Officer from 1955-1960.  She moved to the USA in 1960 under the auspices of a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to study Genetics and Statistics at Iowa State University.  She married quantitative geneticist James F. Kidwell in 1961, obtained her MS degree in 1962 and moved with her husband to Brown University in 1963.  She received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of Masatoshi Nei.  From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of anomalous genetic phenomena in "Drosophila" which later lead to collaborative studies resulting in the discovery of hybrid dysgenesis and the isolation of transposable P elements.  After appointment as Professor of Biology at Brown University in 1984 she moved to the University of Arizona in 1985 as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  Additional positions included Chair of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program from 1988-1991 and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 1992-1997.  Research at the University of Arizona has increasingly focused on the evolutionary significance of transposable genetic elements.  In 1996, she was the first woman from Arizona to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Andrew P. Vayda: Andrew P. Vayda is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University, an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and at the University of Indonesia, and Senior Research Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia.  Formerly a professor at Columbia University, he has taught also at the University of Indonesia and other Indonesian universities and at the University of British Columbia.  He specializes in methodology and explanation at the interface between social and ecological science and has directed and participated in numerous research projects on people’s interactions with forests in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.  Currently he is taking part in a research project on causes of peat fires and their consequences in carbon emissions in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan.  He has published some hundred articles and several books, including "Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes", a selection of his essays on explanation and explanation-oriented research in the social sciences and human ecology, published by AltaMira Press in 2009, and "Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader", co-edited by him and Bradley Walters, published by AltaMira Press in 2011.  The journal, "Human Ecology", was founded by him, and he was its editor for five years.  He serves at present on the editorial boards of Borneo Research Council Publications, "Forests", "International Journal of Indonesian Studies", and "Human Ecology".  A festschrift in his honor, "Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology", with a concluding chapter by him on “Causal Explanation as a Research Goal,” was published in 2008 by AltaMira Press.

University of Aberdeen: The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.  It is an ancient university founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, making it Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.  The university as it is today was formed in 1860 by a merger between King's College and Marischal College, a second university founded in 1593 as a Protestant alternative to the former.  Today, Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is one of two universities in the city, the other being the Robert Gordon University.

New Mexico State University: New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a major public, land-grant, research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.  Founded in 1888, it is the oldest public institution of higher education in the state of New Mexico.  NMSU is the second largest four-year university in the state, in terms of total enrollment across all campuses as of 2011, with campuses in Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Doña Ana County, and Grants, with extension and research centers across New Mexico.

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Answer: 1888