Ciara Hulet
Morning Edition HostEmail: chulet@kuer.org
A native of Utah, Ciara Hulet studied broadcast journalism at Brigham Young University, where she won multiple awards and scholarships for her work. She then went on to help host and produce the podcast Top of Mind on BYUradio. She's conducted hundreds of interviews with national and international experts and is passionate about helping people better understand the world and different perspectives. When Ciara isn't on the radio, she works to fight eating disorders through volunteer work and hikes as many mountains as she can.
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“The public really loves this idea of getting extremism out of politics,” said party chair Michelle Quist. “The public loves the idea of collaborating on political solutions. They can see the nastiness in politics, and they don't like it.” -
Most Americans can likely agree that there’s a lot of change happening in the country right now. But U.S. history does offer examples of other times marked by political divisiveness and uncertainty, and those moments might give insight to Utahns. -
With housing needed and agricultural spaces disappearing, the fate of the land under Wilkerson Farm highlights the challenges facing fast-growing Utah County. -
Gender parity is a challenge at Utah’s business schools, but many of the 16 students KUER interviewed from Brigham Young University felt the issue weighed more there. -
Michelle Rankin has worked for a year to make changes at Utah Valley University for women in accounting. She says she’s seen it working. -
Utah isn’t just a hot spot for fantasy readers, the state has also produced several best-selling authors like Orson Scott Card and Shannon Hale. -
Utah’s unique adoption laws have attracted pregnant women from across the country to the state, according to a new Mother Jones investigation. Many are enticed by free lodging and cash stipends. -
When a family loses an infant, the impact is devastating. One woman in Provo has made it her mission to help ease the pain through donated wedding dresses repurposed as burial clothing. -
There’s a cultural stigma in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that older, unmarried men are misfits or something’s wrong with them. A new mission change could signal to other members that single men belong. -
For more than 20 years, Aaron Reimschiissel has been carving pumpkins. Not the typical jack-o’-lantern, but intricate, 3D sculptural creations. -
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says a new sleeveless version of the temple garment is especially for people in hot and humid areas. Researcher and religious historian Jana Riess doesn’t think that’s the whole story. -
More than a quarter of Utah’s new residents last decade were Hispanic, according to recent U.S. Census data. That’s more than the rest of the country and most other western states.
