Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering, is receiving the 
Hajim School’s top annual faculty award for her research, international leadership, and mentoring of graduate students. The Hajim School presented Rolland with the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes faculty for outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and leadership over the course of their career.
“For pioneering accomplishments in freeform optics and for her mentoring of generations of graduate students, she is well deserving of a Hajim Lifetime Achievement Award,” says Thomas Brown, the director of the Institute of Optics.