27 new Ivy academic openings this week — August 7, 2026

At a glance

This week’s scan found 27 new or newly opened Ivy League academic opportunities dated August 1–7, 2026: 11 faculty searches and 16 postdoctoral or fellowship positions. Confirmed openings came from Harvard (20), Yale (5), Dartmouth (1), and Cornell (1). No qualifying opening could be confirmed for Princeton, Columbia, Penn, or Brown from a dated, readable source in this window.

Harvard accounts for most of the volume, including nine faculty searches and eleven postdoctoral/fellow positions. Yale’s two professor-rank records are included with tenure status unconfirmed because the accessible Yale index exposed the rank and unit but the linked Interfolio pages did not expose the full appointment terms. The dates below are posting, update, or official opening dates—not deadline dates.

The practical filter is simple: first sort by field, then open the original record to check whether the live application portal is still accepting materials, whether the track fits your career stage, and whether any rolling search has already moved to a shortlist.

Scan table

School	Position and level	Posted / opened	Research-fit keywords	Deadline or status	Term	Direct link
Harvard	Professor of Urban Design, tenured	Aug 7	urban design; sustainable spatial patterns; public realm; AI and spatial analysis	Rolling review from Aug 2026	Full-time, tenured; Greater Boston residency	Official posting
Harvard	Professor of Urban Planning, tenured	Aug 7	planning; built environment; cities; interdisciplinary planning practice	Rolling review from Sep 2026	Full-time, tenured; Greater Boston residency	Official posting
Harvard	Professor of Landscape Architecture, tenured	Aug 7	landscape architecture; climate; public realm; environmental and social justice	Rolling review from Jun 2026	Full-time, tenured; Greater Boston residency	Official posting
Harvard	Assistant or Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design — Spatial Analysis and Technology, tenure-track	Aug 7	geospatial technology; spatial data; visualization; computational modeling; housing; infrastructure	Rolling review from Jun 2026	Full-time, tenure-track	Official posting
Harvard	R. Buckminster Fuller professorship: Associate Professor in Design Science, tenure-track, or practice variants	Aug 7	design science; planetary and societal concerns; cross-disciplinary research/practice; design engineering	Rolling review from Mar 2026	Full-time tenure-track associate professor, or part-time practice appointment	Official posting
Harvard	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, tenure-track	Aug 7	computational neuroscience; machine learning; mathematical modeling; natural and artificial intelligence	Nov 3, 2026	Full-time, tenure-track; first faculty position	Official posting
Harvard	Cummings Foundation Professor of Global Health Equity, tenured	Aug 7	global health equity; health systems; implementation science; sub-Saharan Africa; Rwanda	Nov 1, 2026	Tenured professorship; Boston and Rwanda responsibilities	Official posting
Harvard	Tenure-Track Professor in Economics	Aug 4	economics; undergraduate and graduate teaching; advising	Nov 3, 2026	Tenure-track; expected start July 1, 2027	Official posting
Harvard	Tenure-Track or Tenured Professor in Ukrainian Studies	Aug 6	Ukrainian philology and culture; Slavic languages; linguistics; literary, cultural, and historical studies	Sep 15, 2026	Tenure-track or tenured; expected start July 1, 2027	Official posting
Harvard	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Xu Lab	Aug 4	topological phases; nanostructures; 2D materials; strongly correlated materials	Rolling until filled	Postdoctoral appointment; duration not stated	Official posting
Harvard	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Joonho Lee Lab	Aug 4	quantum chemistry; machine learning for many-body simulations	Rolling until filled	Postdoctoral appointment; duration not stated	Official posting
Harvard	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nocera Lab	Aug 7	mechanistic enzymology; PCET; ribonucleotide reductase; biochemistry; spectroscopy	Rolling until filled	Postdoctoral appointment; funding contingent	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science, Amin Lab	Aug 5	verified programming; programming languages; AI/ML; precision medicine	Not stated	Full-time, fixed one-year fellowship; possible renewal	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Position in Particle Physics	Aug 6	quantum information; particle-physics data; near-term quantum computing; ML	Rolling until filled	Up to three years; renewal depends on funding and collaboration	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Position in Neutrino Physics at TAMBO	Aug 5	astrophysical tau neutrinos; particle detectors; data acquisition; data analysis	Not stated	Up to three years; renewal depends on funding and collaboration	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistical Genetics and Genomics	Aug 7	whole-genome data; biobanks; single-cell and CRISPR multiome; causal inference; ML/AI	Not stated	Postdoctoral appointment; duration not stated	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Phenotyping / Smartphone Data Research, Onnela Lab	Aug 7	biostatistics; digital phenotyping; smartphone data; disease modeling	Not stated	Two years; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required for T32 eligibility	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Merkenschlager Lab	Aug 6	immunology; germinal centers; acquired immune response; microscopy; flow cytometry	Not stated	Postdoctoral appointment; duration not stated	Official posting
Harvard	2027–28 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow	Aug 7	environmental humanities; climate; biodiversity; environmental/social justice; health; animal studies	Nov 20, 2026; letters due Dec 4	One year, Sep 1, 2027–Aug 31, 2028; four fellowships	Official posting
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor — Research, Endocrinology; track unconfirmed	Aug 4	endocrinology; biomedical research; Yale School of Medicine	Not stated on accessible index	Rank shown; tenure status not stated	Yale academic index
Yale	Assistant or Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine; track unconfirmed	Aug 3	maternal-fetal medicine; obstetrics; gynecology; reproductive sciences	Not stated on accessible index	Rank shown; tenure status not stated	Yale academic index
Yale	Postdoctoral Associate in Microbial Metabolomics	Aug 1	microbial metabolomics; analytical and biomedical research	Not stated on accessible index	Duration not stated	Yale academic index
Yale	Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Zhi Laboratory	Aug 4	computational genomics; pangenomics; clinical AI; EHR deep learning; imaging genetics	Rolling until filled	Full-time; renewable annually; Fall 2026 start negotiable	Official Yale postdoc posting
Yale	Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowships	Aug 4	interdisciplinary neuroscience; experimental, computational, or theoretical approaches	Oct 1, 2026	Up to three years	Official Yale postdoc posting
Dartmouth	Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows competition	Aug 1 opening	computational and interdisciplinary research across traditional disciplines	Dec 1, 2026; letters due Dec 8	Two years, with option to request a third; start Sep 1, 2027	Program page · Application
Cornell	Postdoctoral Associate in the De Vlaminck Group, Biomedical Engineering	Aug 4	cell-free RNA liquid biopsy; cfRNA/cfDNA; computational biology; molecular engineering; biomarker discovery	Until filled	Duration not stated	Cornell listing · Application

Harvard

Harvard’s official Academic Positions Atom feed records the posting dates used here; the feed’s dated entries are paired with the university-hosted detail pages for the appointment terms and research descriptions. 1

The faculty side is unusually concentrated in the Graduate School of Design: urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture, spatial analysis, and design science. The other faculty searches span computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and the Kempner Institute, economics, Ukrainian philology and culture, and global health equity. Together they cover conventional tenure-track economics, a language-and-culture search, and a senior tenured search with substantial sub-Saharan Africa experience.

The postdoctoral group ranges from theory-heavy physics and quantum chemistry to statistical genetics, digital phenotyping, immunology, and environmental humanities. The most restrictive eligibility signal is the Onnela Lab T32 appointment, which requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency. The Mahindra fellowship is a 2027–28 humanities appointment rather than an immediate lab postdoc, and the deadline is later than most of the faculty searches.

The dated feed also contains a Lecturer on Biostatistics and a Fellow in Chemistry and Chemical Biology that were not counted: the first is not a tenure-track or postdoctoral appointment, and the second lists a bachelor’s or master’s degree rather than a postdoctoral qualification. 2 3

Yale

Yale’s official academic-position index recorded the two professor-rank searches and the Microbial Metabolomics postdoc on August 1–4. 4 The accessible index did not expose the complete Interfolio descriptions, so the two faculty records are deliberately marked track unconfirmed rather than labeled tenure-track. The clinical instructor, part-time faculty, radiologist, and electrophysiologist records dated in the same window were screened but are not counted as tenure-track searches.

The official Yale postdoctoral page gives fuller descriptions for the Zhi Laboratory and Wu Tsai openings. The Zhi position is a strong fit for computational genomics, pangenome methods, clinical AI, and imaging genetics; its appointment is renewable annually and starts in Fall 2026 by negotiation. The Wu Tsai fellowship is a three-year interdisciplinary neuroscience route with an October 1 deadline and a three-year PhD recency condition. 5 6

Dartmouth

The Neukom Institute says its application site goes live on August 1, 2026, which is why this competition is included as an opening in the current window rather than as an older standing fellowship. The program is for recent PhDs whose research crosses disciplinary boundaries and includes a computational component. Fellows are mentored by faculty in two departments, teach one seminar each year, and are expected to be in residence. 7

Cornell

Cornell’s faculty-recruitment inventory was current as of 7 a.m. on August 7 and showed the De Vlaminck Group postdoc as posted five days earlier; the item-level record used for this roundup gives an August 4 posting/update date. The work combines cfRNA liquid biopsy, computational and AI-driven analysis, molecular engineering, genomics, and biomarker discovery for inflammatory disease. Cornell’s HR record points applicants to an AcademicJobsOnline application page, so both paths are retained. 8 9

Cornell’s same-day inventory also showed a Hu Lab neurodegeneration postdoc as “posted 3 days ago,” but the item-level record exposed an older January 6 date. Because the two date signals conflict, it is not counted as an August 1–7 opening. 10

Deadline triage

Act first on hard deadlines: Yale Wu Tsai (Oct 1), Dartmouth Neukom (Dec 1, with letters by Dec 8), Harvard Ukrainian Studies (Sep 15, official posting here), Harvard Economics and Neurobiology (Nov 3), Harvard Global Health Equity (Nov 1), and the Mahindra Humanities fellowship (Nov 20, letters by Dec 4).
Treat rolling searches as live but not necessarily low-pressure: Harvard’s Xu, Lee, and Nocera chemistry positions, Harvard particle physics, and Yale’s Zhi Lab postdoc all say rolling or until filled. Confirm the live portal before investing in a full application.
Check eligibility before drafting: the Onnela Lab position has a T32 citizenship/permanent-residency condition; the Wu Tsai fellowship has a three-year PhD recency rule and excludes current Yale community members; the GSD searches may require Greater Boston residency.
Do not infer track from rank alone: Yale’s endocrinology and maternal-fetal-medicine records show Assistant/Associate Professor in the dated index, but the accessible source does not establish tenure status. Confirm the full appointment language in the live application record.

Schools with no confirmed qualifying opening in this window

Princeton: The official search route and department pages were checked, but the accessible pages returned security-verification shells rather than dated job inventories. No qualifying August 1–7 faculty or postdoctoral record could be verified.
Columbia: The official opportunities portal was reachable only as a general candidate shell in the retrieved page; the dated results located in this pass were administrative, clinical, or otherwise not a qualifying faculty/postdoctoral appointment. No confirmed August 1–7 opening is included.
Penn: Candidate Interfolio records were found, but the retrieved pages returned the application platform’s cookie/consent shell rather than a readable posting. Their rank, field, and posting date could not be verified, so no Penn item is counted.
Brown: Brown’s School of Public Health page currently lists an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Tenure Track search and two postdoctoral records, but the accessible page does not state their posting dates. Brown’s DEEPS page likewise provides no current posting date for its listed postdocs; the Voss postdoc opened July 13, outside this window. These records are not counted as newly posted this week.

This is a date-bounded scan, not a guarantee that a school had no opening. Before applying, open the original listing, confirm that the position remains live, and verify the deadline, appointment track, eligibility, and required documents.