Two years after her death, Kelley posthumously received the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor award by the Society for Neuroscience.[1] The University of Wisconsin-Madison established the Ann E. Kelley Fellowship in Behavioral Science in her honour.[2] Kelley's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, established the Ann E. Kelley Memorial Scholarship in 2007.[3] In 2013 the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews dedicated a volume to her.[20]