ACE recognizes professional work and service to ACE with a number of prestigious awards.

The Critique and Awards Program is an annual event geared toward providing members with professional critiques of their work and recognizing those who have done an outstanding job.

Other ACE awards, including the Professional Award, Award of Excellence, Pioneer Award and Service Award, recognize members for all-around excellence within their fields and service to ACE. The Retiree Award of Excellence recognizes a retired or life member, and the Reuben Brigham Award recognizes an individual outside of ACE for his or her contribution to communications in agriculture, natural resources, and life and human sciences.