Marta Meana

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Professor, Department of Psychology

Former Acting President, UNLV

Former Dean, UNLV Honors College

Expertise: Women's Health & Human Sexuality, Higher Education Leadership

Biography

Marta Meana is a licensed clinical psychologist whose groundbreaking research has reshaped clinical approaches to the field of women's health and human sexuality. She has published two books and close to 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her expertise has been sought by media nationwide, including the New York Times and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Meana is also a respected administrator, teacher, advisor, and mentor. A professor of psychology at UNLV since 1997, Meana was named dean of UNLV’s Honors College in 2012 and previously served as senior advisor to the university president. She was appointed acting president of UNLV, effective July 1, 2018 through August 2020.

Meana has earned multiple university, state and national awards during her career, including the Masters and Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award for work in her field.

Education

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Women’s Health), University of Toronto
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, McGill University
M.A. in English Literature, McGill University
B.A. in English Literature and Psychology, McGill University

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Marta Meana In The News

My Erotic Awakening in the Pages of ‘Sweet Valley High’

When news broke that Francine Pascal, creator of the “Sweet Valley High” universe, died last weekend at the age of 92, appreciations began rolling across the internet like a certain red Spider through a high school parking lot. “Wildly popular,” “staple of my girlhood,” “G.O.A.T. of publishing,” readers proclaimed. Nostalgic and bereaved, I drove to the library to check out a few, only to discover they had been removed from the catalog.

Sex File: I want to be told how good I am in bed

Irish Examiner

Being asked to deliver any kind of sexual narrative when it does not come naturally can feel awkward

Can the Las Vegas Valley become an industrial powerhouse with Apex?

Nevada is currently leading the nation in job growth and experiencing an uptick in college-educated workers moving to Clark County in particular.

Financial struggles help inspire academic success for UNLV Outstanding Graduate

Mae Ling Catayong was still a teenager when she realized that resources some may take for granted are not easily available to all. Her hard-of-hearing mother’s hearing aids broke, and as an immigrant who was never taught sign language in school, Catayong’s mother couldn’t communicate with her family. They couldn’t afford replacements, so the family resorted to typing out their conversations on her smartphone.