Alicia Cowart, Director of the Geospatial Analysis & Mapping Laboratory, was recently accepted as a UCGIS TRELIS fellow. UCGIS is the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and TRELIS (Training and Retaining Leaders in Stem) is a professional development network for women in the geospatial sciences in higher education. TRELIS builds leadership capacity and skills around the topics of career retention strategies, mentoring training, career transitions, technical professional development, and work-life balance. As part of the program, Cowart will be attending a workshop scheduled for June in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, followed by the UCGIS symposium in Syracuse.