A former Hanley Castle pupil has helped the University of Warwick win a major academic award.
Tim Atherton, who attended the old Hanley Castle Grammar School and whose father was headmaster of the Grove Primary school in Malvern Link, won the best Teaching Company Scheme (TCS) programme of 2001 from a field of several hundred projects.
The 46-year-old, a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Warwick, was the academic supervisor of two graduate students for a project at high-tech company Improvision, which produces 3D imaging software for microscopes.
"Of the scientists that won the Nobel Prize for medicine this year, most, if not all, of them used this equipment," said Mr Atherton.
As a result of the TCS programme, sales at Improvision increased by 700 per cent and the number of employees quadrupled.
"I was a bit flabbergasted by the award," said Mr Atherton. "But I was very pleased."
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