The Star and Crescent Award is the highest distinction bestowed upon a graduate member of the Society. It is awarded by the Society Board of Governors to a graduate member who has made an outstanding contribution to the Society and/or their chapter. The Star and Crescent Award is presented at the annual Society Convention Banquet.

Previous honorees have included:

2023: Alanna Kwoka, BRN 2010
2023: Ashley Taylor, GRN 2013
2022: Michael Blitstein, BRN 2003
2022: Dena Schwartz, PENN 2013
2022: Peter Goldstein, BRN 2008
2022: Lynn Cartwright-Punnett, MID 2007
2021: Jim Sabo, BDN 1992
2020: Kristen Soule, BRN 1999
2019: Tom Giordano, COL 1986
2018: Joan Charlotte Matelli, MID 1992
2017: Leah Stern, MID 2006
2016: Chad Wolfsheimer, BRN 2000
2016: David Clodfelter, BDN 1989
2014: Thomas Clark, BDN 1999
2013: Paul Neshamkin, COL 1963
2013: Craig Cheslog, BDN 1993
2013: Clay Maitland, COL 1964
2013: Peter Darrow, COL 1972
2013: William Millard, ILL 1980
2013: Terrie Eastmade, BDN 1997
2012: Robert C. Wood, BRN 1958
2012: Zanne Gerrard, MID 1994
2012: KJ Iribe, MID 2004
2011: Greg Smith, S 1988
2011: Joel Parker, S 1991
2011: Christina Van Aken, S 1995
2010: S. Robert Austein, MID 1984
2010: Mary M. Melchior, MID 1983
2010: E. Jenny K. Flanagan, MID 1983
2009: Charles E. Gross, Jr. BRN 1972
2005: David Ehrlich, S 1984
2005: Nessa Burns Reifsnyder, BDN 1986
2005: Timothy N. Smith, BRN 1993
2001: Robert G. McKelvey, MID 1959