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

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