SBCC mathematics professor Peter Georgakis has received the top award, the Presidential Award, given by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

The award, given every other year, goes to an individual for outstanding contributions and dedicated service to two-year mathematics education.

Georgakis, an SBCC professor for the past 25 years, is a 1997 Hayward Award Recipient, the highest award given to a California community college instructor, and was the faculty lecturer at SBCC in 2005.