* 1983: Humboldt Prize.
* 1997: The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named Stuiver Valley in Antarctica after Minze Stuiver for his work on radiocarbon dating Antarctic samples.
* 1993: The 13th Pomerance Award of the Archaeological Institute of America for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology went to Minze Stuiver along with Michael G. L. Baillie, Bernd Becker, Gordon W. Pearson, Jonathan R.  Pilcher, and Hans Suess.
* 2000: Received The American Quaternary Association Distinguished Career Award.
* 2001: Thomson Reuters most cited paper in geosciences for the 1990s.
* 2005:  Awarded the Geological Society of America's Penrose Gold Medal for outstanding original contributions or achievements that mark a major advance in the science of geology.
* 2009: Awarded an honorary doctorate at Queen's University Belfast.