She led the Citizen to recognition by the National Newspaper Association in 1986 as one of 128 Blue Ribbon Newspapers in the nation, and twice to General Excellence winner in the Utah Press Association's annual Better Newspaper competition. USU print journalists working with Williams have won hundreds of awards in professional competiton as well as student press contests, and have gone on to win top national internships, scholarships and jobs within the profession. She coordinates the department's internship program, serves on the undergraduate curriculum committee and the USU Women's Center grants and scholarship review committee. In the last 15 months she has presented a paper at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics annual meeting in Washington, DC, attended the 10th Teaching Ethics in Journalism workshop at University of Missouri-Columbia, and given a public lecture at the University of Montana on ethics in community journalism. She received the Quintus C. Wilson Ethics Award from the Utah Headliners chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1992.
Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. Whether we understand this or not matters little. Whether we agree or disagree makes no difference. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.