May 23, 2006

The "Dr. William T. Oosterhuis (S 1964, 1967) Memorial Fellowship in Physics" has been
established. The fellowship is to be awarded to a graduate student who is a top scholar and
has financial need.  The funds come from the family and friends of William Oosterhuis.

William Oosterhuis was born in New York and raised in Wisconsin.  At the University of
Wisconsin at Platteville, he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, physics, and
chemistry.  He received his master's degree and a doctorate in physics at Carnegie Mellon
University in 1964 and 1967, respectively.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atomic
Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, England, in 1967-8, and then worked for
seventeen years as a program manager at the NSF in the Division of Materials Research.
In 1991, he joined the DOE and eventually became a Team Leader for Condensed Matter
Physics and Materials Chemistry.  He passed away in November 2005, and is survived by
his wife of 41 years, M. Jane Stinton Oosterhuis of Gaitherburg, and a daughter, Lynda
Oosterhius of Seattle.