47 new Ivy academic openings this week — September 19–25, 2026

This issue lists 47 academic openings with a posting or open date between September 19 and September 25, 2026: 20 at Penn, 11 at Harvard, eight at Cornell, seven at Yale, and one at Dartmouth. Twelve are postdoctoral, fellowship or research-track posts; 35 are faculty appointments. 1234

The table is the scanning surface: school, position and rank, department or unit, field keywords, the date the post went up, the deadline or first review date, and the application link, one row per opening. Harvard's own posting feed timestamps every record, and each Harvard posting page states the appointment, the field and the materials to submit. Cornell's posting pages state a review date in place of a deadline. Yale's and Penn's public inventories publish the title, the unit, the open date and the application link, and leave the appointment language and the deadline blank on the pages a reader can open.

Three of the eight schools have no row this week, and the closing note says what was checked. Where a school left a field unpublished, the row says "Not published"; where a post states no date at all, the row says "Not stated". Every date carries its year. Visiting appointments and teaching-only lectureships and instructorships stay out of the count.

Seven of the eleven Harvard records are postdoctoral or fellowship posts; four are faculty searches, three of them in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and one in the Graduate School of Design. The materials science search is for solid mechanics, and the environmental search is for water technology and water resources; both start July 1, 2027. The computer science search invites applicants whose work bridges AI with other parts of the field, and the posting holds out the possibility of an appointment as a Kempner Institute investigator. 4

The two particle physics fellowships are separate positions on the ATLAS experiment, and both are stationed at CERN — one on commissioning the ITK tracking detector, one on the muon spectrometer trigger. Files are due November 1, 2026, and the posts ask for a curriculum vitae, a publication list, a research statement and three letters. The mental health policy fellowship at Harvard Medical School carries an eligibility restriction: applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. 4

Yale's Provost index publishes a title, an academic unit, a location and an open date for each search, and links straight to the application on Interfolio. Seven records opened between September 20 and September 25, 2026, and none of them states a deadline. 1

Four of the seven are Yale School of Medicine clinical searches — anesthesiology, vascular surgery, infectious diseases, and the physician associate program, which is an academic clinician post in a teaching program rather than a research line. The other three spread across the university: condensed-matter theory in Physics, a materials science search housed at the West Campus and tied to the Energy Sciences Institute, and African art in the History of Art department. 1

Fifteen of Penn's twenty records sit in the Perelman School of Medicine, and most of those are clinical tracks — academic clinician, clinician educator, and a research track. Six of the fifteen are orthopaedic surgery posts opened the same day, covering adult reconstruction, hand, spine and sports medicine, with the sports medicine search advertised separately at assistant and at associate-or-full rank. The remainder of the Perelman rows run across endocrinology, psychiatry, radiology, addiction medicine and epidemiology. 2

Outside the medical school, the university opened tenure-track or tenured lines in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, a philosophy, politics and economics postdoctoral fellowship, a research associate post in the dental school, and a practice professorship in nursing focused on sexual and reproductive health and nurse midwifery. Penn's inventory left "Position open through" blank on every row, so no Penn row carries a deadline. 2

Cornell's eight in-window records come from five schools and departments. Two are plant science searches in the School of Integrative Plant Science — vegetable production systems at the Geneva AgriTech campus, and potato breeding and genetics at Ithaca — and two are in public policy and economics, including a joint Brooks School and Government department search in democracy and public policy. The Klarman Fellowships are open to any discipline in the College of Arts and Sciences and fund up to three years at an $80,000 stipend; the application deadline is October 15, 2026. 3

The American politics search in the Government department began reviewing applications on September 21, 2026, and takes them until the position is filled. 3

Dartmouth's one new search this week is a tenured professorship rather than an assistant-level line: the Mae and John Hueston Distinguished Professorship in Native American and Indigenous Studies is open at associate or full professor rank, with research and teaching in any context for the study of Indigenous Peoples and a stated interest in global Indigenous studies. Review of applications begins November 2, 2026 and runs until the position is filled. The search asks for a cover letter and a curriculum vitae. 5

Ten of the 47 posts carry a date on which a file has to be ready. 3

October 2026. Cornell's Klarman Fellowships close October 15 and its Scenic and Lighting Design search closes October 25.

November 2026. The two Harvard ATLAS postdocs want files by November 1. Dartmouth's Hueston Professorship begins reviewing November 2, Cornell's economics and public policy search November 9, and Cornell's vegetable production systems search gives full consideration to files received by November 25.

December 2026. Cornell's democracy and public policy search works from a December 15 deadline for full consideration.

Open until filled. Cornell's American politics search began reviewing on September 21, and its food science postdoc and potato breeding search read applications as they arrive.

No date published. Ten Harvard posts, all seven Yale rows and all twenty Penn rows state no deadline on any page a reader can open. Yale's and Penn's inventories publish an open date and an application link and leave the deadline field empty, and each of those rows keeps "Not published" in the deadline column so the gap stays visible rather than looking like an absence of one.

Three of the eight schools have no row this week. Princeton and Brown list their academic searches on pages that carry no posting date, and neither published a dated listing inside this window: Princeton's dated listings showed only its drama and architectural design searches, both carried in earlier issues, and Brown's open-searches board points to a recruitment site that did not load. Columbia's Department of Medicine listings and its Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory listings show no post dated inside the window, and its dated listings this week are two visiting journalism professorships, which fall outside this digest. 15

The rule this digest applies: a row is printed only when the school's own page or a dated listing that names the school's own open date establishes when the post went up. A search whose page carries no date waits until one appears.