East Georgia State College (EGSC) recently promoted two faculty members. Dr. David Chevalier was promoted to Professor of Biology, and Dr. John Cadle was promoted to Professor of Biology and granted tenure.
The promotion to professor requires rigorous dedication to the profession and is earned by faculty who demonstrate superior achievement in teaching, academic achievement, professional development, and service.
Dr. David Chevalier is currently the Associate Vice-President of Academics at EGSC. He was born in France and earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Biology from the University of Tours, France, Master of Sciences in Plant Biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Chevalier then spent one year at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, helping his Ph.D. advisor with his new lab.
Dr. Chevalier was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Missouri – Columbia from 2003 to 2007. He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Mississippi, and then joined East Georgia State College in 2013. At EGSC Dr. Chevalier became the Interim Biology Chair in 2016, Biology Chair in 2017, Interim Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 2020, and finally the Associate Vice-President of Academics in 2021.
Dr. John Cadle, son of William E. and Johnnie O. Cadle, grew up in Swainsboro and graduated class valedictorian of Swainsboro High School in 1971. He developed a keen interest in snakes and natural history through countless hours immersed in the swamps of Emanuel County. He received a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Georgia, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1975. By this time, he knew he wanted to be a tropical biologist, for which he entered at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. in zoology, 1983) and studied snakes in Central America, South America, and Africa for his dissertation. Postdoctoral studies followed at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), LSU Medical Center in New Orleans, and by a year-long expedition to Peru sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
Dr. Cadle spent much of his career researching and documenting biological diversity in remote parts of South America, Africa, and Madagascar, and is especially proud of his work applying basic research to pressing conservation problems in the tropics.
Along the way, Dr. Cadle has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Stony Brook University, and has led field biology courses in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Madagascar. Prior to coming to EGSC in 2016, Dr. Cadle spent three years developing a field station associated with Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park, a park founded, in part, based on his research in that area over more than two decades.
