12 Ivy academic openings this week — July 24, 2026

Twelve confirmed new or newly updated tenure-track, faculty-track, and postdoctoral openings surfaced across seven of the eight target Ivies for the July 17-24, 2026 window. Yale leads with three faculty searches; Harvard, Princeton, and Penn each have two. Dartmouth has no confirmed qualifying opening in this window.

Cornell's Rose Postdoctoral Associate is counted as an updated call, not a newly created one-off job. Deadlines below include the year whenever the source states it. Where a source gives a month and day without a year, the year is identified as the current posting cycle and flagged for confirmation.

* Harvard's BHEX page says "October 2" without printing a year; 2026 follows the July 2026 posting cycle. Confirm the date in the application form.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) — Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Black Hole Initiative, in partnership with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The fellow joins the BHEX Receiver Team and works on receiver development, testing, and mission readiness. The fit is strongest for researchers in black-hole physics, superconducting detectors, spaceborne receivers, or space very-long-baseline interferometry. The appointment begins between fall 2027 and fall 2028, starts at one year, and may renew for up to three years. Salary is listed at $75,000-$95,000. The employer-posted listing gives a July 22, 2026 posting date and an October 2 application date; the university-hosted page supplies the research description and application materials. 1 2

HMS Postdoctoral Fellow in Systems Biology — Paulsson Lab, Harvard Medical School. The project combines single-cell biology, microscopy, assay development, and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial infections, with room for work at the interface of microscopy and omics-like assays. It is a one-year appointment expected to start around January 1, 2027, with possible extension, and pays $72,000-$77,500. Applications are considered on a rolling basis, with a September 1, 2026 application deadline shown in the accessible copy. The employer-posted HERC page is the application-facing listing; the accessible secondary copy records the July 18, 2026 posting date and the fuller description. 3 4

Assistant Professor, APT Foundation — Yale University, APT Foundation. This faculty appointment is tied to psychiatric outpatient services. The July 21, 2026 listing does not expose a deadline in the accessible record, so treat it as an open-date search rather than assuming a rolling process. 5

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology — Department of Psychology. Yale accepts applications from any area of clinical psychology. The position is expected to begin July 1, 2027; review begins September 2, 2026 and continues until the search is filled. Apply through Interfolio. 6

Assistant/Associate Professor, International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Economy — Department of Political Science. The search covers comparative politics, political economy, and/or international relations at the assistant or associate professor level. Applications received by September 10, 2026 receive full consideration. 7

Postdoctoral Research Associate — Graves Research Group. The project uses atomistic plasma-surface interaction simulations and machine-learned interatomic potentials for plasma processing in quantum and microelectronic device nanofabrication. The one-year appointment may be renewed subject to performance, funding, and fit. No deadline is stated in the accessible July 21, 2026 listing. 8

Associate Research Scholar, Dicke Fellow — Physics Department. This three-year honorific postdoctoral fellowship, starting September 1, 2027, considers candidates from all areas of experimental physics. The listed salary is $77,000, with a $15,000 annual discretionary fund. The HERC employer mirror is the direct listing; the fellowship description was available through a secondary job mirror, which did not state a deadline. 9 10

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Scientist, Pediatric Cornea — Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The work centers on pediatric corneal disease and clinical research, including patient recruitment, IRB coordination, clinical databases, imaging, and data analysis. The July 19, 2026 listing does not state a term or deadline. 11

Postdoctoral Researcher, Immunology / Oral Biology — Ko Laboratory, School of Dental Medicine. The project examines host-microbe interactions at the oral epithelial barrier, periodontitis, inflammatory cell death, tissue destruction, and spatial or single-cell molecular profiling. The listing opened July 23, 2026 and says applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until filled. The accessible listing is a University of Pennsylvania posting carried by Inside Higher Ed; its apply link redirects through that platform. 12

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Pediatric Nephrology — Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Division of Nephrology. The role combines clinical care for children and adolescents with kidney disease, teaching, and research that may be clinical, basic, or translational. Open date is July 22, 2026; the listed close date is July 22, 2028. 13

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics — Department of Physics, Brown University. Kemp Plumb's momentum-resolved spectroscopy group is recruiting for neutron-scattering work on out-of-equilibrium frustrated magnets, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The appointment is expected to run for two years from fall 2026, with possible renewal for a third year. Review begins immediately; applications received by September 1, 2026 receive full consideration. The Brown job was surfaced on AcademicJobsOnline, with a direct Interfolio application link and Brown department page listed in the posting. 14

Rose Postdoctoral Associate — Cornell Lab of Ornithology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This fellowship supports independent research connected to the Lab's mission around birds, biodiversity, conservation, education, and citizen science. It is a one-year appointment renewable annually for up to two additional years, subject to performance and funding. Cornell's official faculty recruitment page shows a July 21, 2026 update; review begins September 9, 2026, and AcademicJobsOnline carries the direct application page. 15 16

Dartmouth had no confirmed qualifying opening in this window. Its Mathematics recruiting page was updated July 21, but the linked Quantitative Biology fellowship is marked closed on MathJobs, and the Society of Fellows page was last updated in February 2026 rather than this week's window. Those listings are not counted.

Two jobs were held out of the confirmed total because the available detail did not close the date and application loop: Columbia's General OB/GYN faculty listing and Princeton's Andlinger Center Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Columbia title appeared in current search results, but the accessible secondary copy did not provide a posting date or direct application URL. The Andlinger HERC detail page returned no usable job description, so its research fit and deadline remain unconfirmed.

The source mix is explicit: Harvard BHEX and Cornell Rose were cross-checked on university-hosted pages; most other faculty and postdoctoral details use employer-posted HERC mirrors; Brown uses AcademicJobsOnline with a direct Interfolio application; and Penn uses Inside Higher Ed because a stable Penn detail page was not exposed. Confirm the live application page and deadline before submitting materials, especially for entries marked "not stated."