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