11 Ivy Academic Openings This Week — July 17, 2026

At a glance

This scan found 11 confirmed new or newly updated academic openings across seven of the eight target Ivy League universities. Princeton supplied the largest cluster of confirmed postdocs; Cornell’s sustainability fellowship call was updated this week. Dartmouth had no confirmed tenure-track, faculty-track, or postdoctoral opening in the accessible results.

The scan window is July 10–17, 2026. Posting dates and update dates below are shown with the year. A listing marked “not stated” did not expose a deadline in the source we could verify; that is not the same as an open-ended appointment.

School	Confirmed openings	Main fit signals	Deadline picture
Harvard	2	Developmental/stem-cell and computational biology; scientific computing and AI	Not stated in either verified listing
Yale	1	Injury epidemiology, violence prevention, causal methods	Not stated
Princeton	2	Evolutionary genomics/conservation; in vivo neuroscience and imaging	One rolling-until-filled update; one not stated
Columbia	1	Viral entry, membrane fusion, structural biology	Not stated
Penn	2	Breast-cancer imaging; clinical microbiology	Not stated for the postdoc; July 14, 2028 for the faculty-track role
Brown	1	Civic science and human–AI interaction	August 14, 2026
Cornell	2	Synchrotron beamline research; sustainability	October 20, 2026 for the fellowship call; not stated for QM2
Dartmouth	0	No confirmed qualifying opening	—

Confirmed openings

Harvard

Postdoctoral Fellow — Ramanathan Lab, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Track: Postdoctoral fellowship
Posted: July 14, 2026 1
Research fit: Developmental biology, stem-cell biology, neuroscience, computational biology, genetics, or genomics.
Deadline: Not stated in the verified listing.
Apply: Harvard HERC listing

Postdoctoral Position in AI for Engineering Applications — SEAS Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory

Track: Postdoctoral position
Posted: July 17, 2026 2
Research fit: Scientific computing and artificial intelligence for turbulent and environmental flows, with stated interest in reduced-order modeling, causal inference, high-performance computing, multiscale modeling, evolutionary computation, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning.
Term and pay: One year, with possible renewal for two additional years; listed salary range is $67,600–$91,826.
Deadline: Not stated.
Apply: Harvard HERC listing

Yale

Postdoctoral Associate in Injury Epidemiology — School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management

Track: Postdoctoral associate
Posted: July 17, 2026 3
Research fit: Injury and violence prevention, criminal-justice-system responses to domestic violence and firearm injury, causal methods, and grant writing.
Term: One year and 10 months, full-time; expected start September 1, 2026.
Deadline: Not stated. The listing says to apply online through Interfolio and requests a CV, cover letter, and three professional references.
Apply: Yale HERC listing

Princeton

Postdoctoral Research Associate — Red Wolf Functional Genomics, vonHoldt Lab

Track: Postdoctoral research associate; revised listing
Posted/revised: July 15, 2026 4
Research fit: Whole-genome sequencing, allele-specific expression, DNA-methylation profiling, population genomics, and the functional and regulatory dynamics of “ghost” introgression in critically endangered red wolves and related canids.
Term and pay: One year with possible renewal for a second year; listed salary range is $65,000–$67,000.
Deadline: Applications received by June 15, 2026 received full consideration, but the posting says applications continue until the position is filled. Treat this as a rolling opportunity, not as a normal future deadline.
Apply: Princeton HERC listing

Postdoctoral Research Associate — Kim Lab

Track: Postdoctoral research associate
Posted: July 17, 2026 5
Research fit: In vivo neuroscience, live imaging, fiber photometry, two-photon microscopy, fluorescent calcium and neuromodulator sensors, and multiplexed imaging in the living brain.
Term and pay: One year with possible renewal; listed salary is $70,000 per year.
Deadline: Not stated. The listing requests a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references.
Apply: Princeton HERC listing

Columbia

Postdoctoral Research Scientist — Department of Pediatrics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Track: Postdoctoral research scientist
Posted: July 16, 2026 6
Research fit: Viral entry and membrane fusion, with work on coronaviruses, mumps virus, and measles virus; methods include cryo-electron microscopy, membrane-protein purification, cell culture, and structural analysis.
Deadline: Not stated.
Apply: Columbia HERC listing

Penn

Nanomedicine and Breast Cancer Imaging Postdoc Fellowship — Perelman School of Medicine, Radiology

Track: Postdoctoral fellowship
Open date: July 16, 2026 7
Research fit: Nanomedicine and breast-cancer imaging.
Deadline: Not stated in the verified listing.
Apply: Penn Interfolio application

Assistant Professor, Academic Clinician Track — Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Track: Assistant Professor; non-tenure academic clinician track
Open date: July 14, 2026 8
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine.
Research/clinical fit: Clinical microbiology.
Deadline: July 14, 2028.
Apply: Penn job listing

Brown

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Civic Science and AI–Human Interaction — Data Science Institute

Track: Postdoctoral research associate
Posted: July 11, 2026 9
Research fit: An 18-month appointment hosted by ARIA, Brown’s AI research institute, spanning computational brain science, trustworthy human–AI interaction, AI alignment, participatory design, and public/community impact. The posting also names the Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign.
Deadline: August 14, 2026. The detailed description is also available in a secondary job copy.
Apply: Brown HERC listing

Cornell

Postdoctoral Researcher Opening — QM2 Beamline, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source

Track: Postdoctoral researcher
Posted: July 13, 2026 10
Research fit: Research supporting and advancing the QM2 beamline at CHESS. The accessible official page exposes the opening title and date but not a fuller project description.
Deadline: Not stated on the accessible official page.
Apply: Official CHESS opening

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability — 2027 call

Track: Postdoctoral fellowship
Updated: July 17, 2026 11
Research fit: Creative, interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes directly to solving pressing sustainability challenges.
Deadline: October 20, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET.
Apply: Cornell Atkinson call for applications
Status note: This is a newly updated call for the 2027 cohort rather than a newly created one-off position, so it is counted as an update.

Watchlist: new listings whose track or detail page was not fully confirmable

Brown Assistant Professor of Political Science — American Political Institutions. A Brown listing was posted July 16, 2026 and describes an Assistant Professor appointment beginning July 1, 2027, focused broadly on American Political Institutions 12. The accessible copy does not state the tenure status or deadline, so it is not included in the 11-opening count. The date and research description are corroborated by a secondary listing.

Princeton’s July 15 search results also surfaced additional AI-focused postdoctoral titles, but the detail pages did not yield enough verifiable fields in this scan to add them without guessing. They are deliberately excluded from the confirmed total.

Deadline triage

Brown Civic Science and AI–Human Interaction: August 14, 2026.
Cornell Atkinson Sustainability Fellowship: October 20, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET.
Penn Clinical Microbiology: July 14, 2028.
Princeton Red Wolf Functional Genomics: the full-consideration date has passed, but the listing says applications continue until filled; treat it as time-sensitive despite the absence of a new hard deadline.

For the openings with no stated deadline, the direct listing is the safest route to confirm whether the search remains active before preparing materials. The two HERC entries for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Brown are exact employer-posted mirrors used where a stable university detail page was not exposed; the Penn and Cornell links above point to the application or university-hosted posting where verified.