Question: Which university was founded first, Cornell University or University of California, Los Angeles?

Context articles: Cornell University
Greg Graffin
Clair S. Tappaan
Jack Barchas
Elena Manferdini
List of Cornell Manhattan Project people
University of California, Los Angeles
Cornell University Department of History
William J. Evans (chemist)
Paul Johnsgard

Cornell University ( ) is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
 Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied.
 These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Gregory Walter Graffin (born November 6, 1964) is an American punk rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, college lecturer, and author.
 He is most recognized as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and only constant member of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in either 1979 or 1980.
 He also embarked on a solo career in 1997, when he released the album "American Lesion".
 His follow-up album, "Cold as the Clay" was released nine years later.
 Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in life sciences and paleontology at the University of California, Los Angeles and evolution at Cornell University.
Clair Sprague Tappaan (May 14, 1878 – November 30, 1932) was an American lawyer, professor and jurist who was on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law School from its formation as an official school of the university in 1904 until 1928, and served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and California Court of Appeal from 1927 until his death in 1932.
 Tappan played college football at Cornell University and served as the head football coach at the University of Southern California (USC) for a one-game season in 1901.
Jack David Barchas, M.D. (born November 2, 1935) is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.
 He was formerly the Nancy Friend Pritzker professor in psychiatry at Stanford University and dean of research and neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.
Manferdini was raised in Bologna, Italy, where she graduated from the University of Civil Engineering in 1999 and later received her Master of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of California Los Angeles in 2000.
 Manferdini has been teaching at SCI-Arc since 2003, serving most recently as Coordinator of Graduate Thesis before taking on the role of Graduate Programs Chair.
 Throughout the years Elena has been acknowledged with prestigious appointments such as the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and various Visiting Professor Positions at Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and Seika University.
 Manferdini founded her Los Angeles based firm, Atelier Manferdini, in 2004.
 The office has gone on to completing projects in the US, Europe and Asia.
Scientists from Cornell University played a major role in developing the technology that resulted in the first atomic bombs used in World War II.
 In turn, Cornell Physics professor Hans Bethe used the project as an opportunity to recruit young scientists to join the Cornell faculty after the war.
 The following people worked on the Manhattan Project primarily in Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II and either studied or taught at Cornell University before or after the War:
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
 It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus University of California system.
 It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.
 UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the most applicants for any American university.
The Cornell University Department of History is an academic department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University that focuses on the study of history.
 Founded in 1868, it is one of Cornell's original departments.
 Its first faculty included university president Andrew Dickson White and English historian Goldwin Smith.
 In 1881, the department named Moses Coit Tyler the first professor of American history in the United States.
 Three of Cornell's twelve presidents have been members of the department: Andrew Dickson White, Charles Kendall Adams, and Hunter R. Rawlings III.
 The longest teaching member of the faculty was Frederick Marcham who, upon completing his graduate work at Cornell in 1924, continued lecturing until a month before his death in 1992 – a total of 68 years.
William J. Evans is a distinguished chemistry professor at the University of California Irvine who specialises in the fields of inorganic and organometallic chemistry.
 He was born in Wisconsin where he also completed his undergraduate studies.
 He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1969 after focusing on research into pentaboranes.
 After the completion of his undergraduate studies he attended The University of California, Los Angeles where he obtained his PhD in 1973 for his research into metallocarboranes.
 He then spent some time at Cornell University where he completed his postdoctoral research in transition metal phosphite complexes.
 In 1975, Evans arrived at the University of Chicago where he decided to begin research into actinides and lanthanides1.
 He moved to the University of California, Irvine in 1983 where he has remained ever since1.Evans has won many accolades which include the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry in 2005 and the prestigious Tolman award in 2014 for his research in the field of coordination chemistry of the late elements.
Paul Austin Johnsgard (born 28 June 1931) is an ornithologist, artist and emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska.
 His works include nearly fifty books including several monographs, principally about the waterfowl and cranes.
 Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he was introduced to the study of birds by a distant cousin who was a game warden.
 He spent these early years taking part in duck counts.
 After high school and junior college at Wahpeton, he enrolled at North Dakota State University to major in zoology.
 He then moved to Washington State University for his master's degree, encouraged by a professor who suggested that he could have a career in ornithology.
 His master's study was on the impact of the construction of O'Sullivan Dam to wetland habitats.
 Apart from the data collected and his interpretation, it included his pen sketches.
 This was published in "The Condor" and the article attracted the attention of Charles Sibley who invited him to consider a Ph.D. at Cornell University with him.
 His Ph.D. work was on the phylogeny of six ducks, after which he moved to England at the Wildfowl Trust at Gloucestershire founded by Sir Peter Scott.
 After the course of two years, he produced his first book, the "Handbook of Waterfowl Behaviour" published by Cornell University in 1965.
 He is considered one of the most prolific authors of ornithology books.