21 new Ivy academic openings this week — August 14, 2026

At a glance

This week's dated scan found 21 still-actionable Ivy League academic openings in the August 8–14, 2026 window: 12 faculty or faculty-track searches and 9 postdoctoral positions. The confirmed count is Harvard (9), Yale (8), Penn (2), and Cornell (2); no in-window qualifying record was confirmed for Princeton, Columbia, Brown, or Dartmouth. Harvard's dated Atom feed, Yale's academic-position index, and Cornell's recruitment inventory anchor the primary-source dates. 1 2 3

The table keeps the fields that matter for a first pass: appointment level, research fit, date opened, deadline or current status, term, and a direct application path. Yale's public index exposes the rank and unit but not the full appointment language for these records, so tenure status is marked not public rather than inferred from Assistant or Associate Professor in the title.

Two additional Harvard records appeared in the date window but were left out of the actionable count because their stated deadlines had already passed: the Ginty Lab postdoc listed July 31, and the Political Theory professorship listed August 10.

Scan table

School	Position and level	Opened	Research-fit keywords	Deadline or status	Term	Direct link
Harvard	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CAUSALab	Aug 10	causal inference; agentic AI; target-trial specification and emulation; public-health and clinical decisions	Not public; apply through live portal	Postdoctoral; duration not public	Official posting
Harvard	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CAUSALab pregnancy project	Aug 10	causal inference; pregnancy treatments; observational health databases; infant neurodevelopment	Not public; apply through live portal	Postdoctoral; duration not public	Official posting
Harvard	HMS Postdoctoral Fellow in Translational Cancer	Aug 11	spatial profiling; machine learning; solid-tumor immunology; cancer initiation and metastasis	Dec 31, 2026; applications considered immediately	One year; possible extension	Official posting
Harvard	Tenure-track professorship in Buddhist Studies	Aug 12	Theravada; Mahayana in South Asia; Buddhist languages; monasticism; literature; philosophy; ritual	Sep 30, 2026	Full-time tenure-track	Official posting
Harvard	Professorship in World Christianity, open search	Aug 12	global Christianity; Africa; Asia; Oceania; Latin America; Caribbean; 19th century to present	Sep 30, 2026	Full-time tenured or tenure-track	Official posting
Harvard	HMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Zitnik Lab	Aug 12	generative, multimodal, and agentic AI; geometric deep learning; knowledge graphs; large language models; precision medicine	Reviewing now; apply early	Available immediately; renewable annually	Official posting
Harvard	HMS Postdoctoral Fellow in Cell Biology, Harper Lab	Aug 13	protein and organelle quality control; ubiquitin system; autophagy; endolysosomal and mitochondrial biology; neurodegeneration	Rolling review	One year; possible extension	Official posting
Harvard	Physics Postdoctoral Fellow, Yao Group	Aug 13	quantum many-body physics	Deadline not public	Begins Fall 2027; appointment term not public	Official posting
Harvard	Tenure-track professor in Clinical Psychology	Aug 14	clinical psychological science; data science; ML/AI; computational modeling; cognitive neuroscience; genetics; cross-cultural work	Sep 15, 2026	Expected start July 1, 2027	Official posting
Yale	Assistant Professor, Chemical Biology	Aug 12	chemical biology; biomolecular design; West Campus	Review begins Oct 1, 2026	Assistant professor; tenure status not public	Apply · Dated listing
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor, Acute Services Team — record 191176	Aug 11	psychiatry; acute services	Not public on accessible index	Assistant/Associate; tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor, Acute Services Team — record 191178	Aug 11	psychiatry; acute services	Not public on accessible index	Assistant/Associate; tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor, Acute Services Team — record 191180	Aug 11	psychiatry; acute services	Not public on accessible index	Assistant/Associate; tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor, Psychiatric Emergency Services — record 191181	Aug 11	psychiatry; psychiatric emergency services	Not public on accessible index	Assistant/Associate; tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Assistant/Associate Professor, Psychiatric Emergency Services — record 191182	Aug 11	psychiatry; psychiatric emergency services	Not public on accessible index	Assistant/Associate; tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Neuroscience Faculty Positions, 2026–27	Aug 10	neuroscience; faculty search	Not public on accessible index	Faculty rank and tenure status not public	Apply
Yale	Neuroscience Faculty Positions — Computational, 2026–27	Aug 10	computational neuroscience; faculty search	Not public on accessible index	Faculty rank and tenure status not public	Apply
Penn	McNeil Center Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship, 24 months	Aug 10 open date	early American studies; North American histories and cultures; Atlantic world before 1850	Nov 1, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET	Two years from July 1, 2027; at least $67,000 stipend stated	Official application · Dated listing
Penn	Postdoctoral Scientist, Ophthalmology	Aug 12 open date	molecular biology; epigenetics; gene therapy; ophthalmology	Deadline not stated	Full-time postdoctoral appointment; duration not stated	Official application · Dated listing
Cornell	Instructor, Ambulatory and Production Medicine	Aug 11	large-animal clinical care; horses; cattle; small ruminants; population health; clinical teaching	Rolling review begins Sep 30, 2026	One-year appointment; renewable annually up to five years	Official posting · Application
Cornell	CPC Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship	Aug 13	demography; families and children; health disparities; poverty, gender, and inequality; immigration and diversity	Dec 1, 2026; review continues until filled	One year, Aug 16, 2027–Aug 15, 2028; possible second year	Official posting · Application

Harvard

The nine actionable Harvard records split cleanly between three faculty searches and six postdocs. The faculty options cover Buddhist Studies, World Christianity, and clinical psychology. The postdoctoral side ranges from causal inference and pregnancy research to cancer biology, AI for medicine, cell biology, and quantum many-body physics. The official postings supply the research descriptions and the dates above. 4 5 6

The strongest deadline pressure is the September 15 clinical-psychology search, followed by the two Divinity School searches at September 30. The cancer-biology posting has a December 31 date but says applications are considered immediately; the Zitnik and Harper lab posts are live under rolling or early-review language. The CAUSALab records do not expose a public deadline in the retrieved posting text, so the live portal should be checked before preparing a full application.

Yale

Yale contributes eight faculty-rank records from its official dated index. The Chemical Biology search is tied to the Institute of Biomolecular Design at West Campus; the dated external listing says review begins October 1. 7 The remaining records are in Psychiatry and Neuroscience, including three Acute Services Team records, two Psychiatric Emergency Services records, and separate broad and computational neuroscience searches.

The index exposes titles, units, locations, and opening dates. The linked Interfolio pages returned the application shell rather than the full job description in this scan, so the table keeps tenure status, deadlines, and terms as not public where the index did not state them. Rank alone is not enough to label a Yale record tenure-track.

Penn

Both Penn entries have a dated open date and a direct Interfolio application link. The Barra fellowship is the clearest humanities fit: a two-year postdoc in early American studies focused on North American histories and cultures in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a November 1 deadline and a July 1, 2027 start. The Ophthalmology postdoc is a molecular biology, epigenetics, and gene-therapy role under Lucie Guo; the dated listing does not state a deadline. 8 9

Penn's faculty-careers host was unavailable during this scan. The dates and descriptions above therefore use the dated Chronicle listings, while the action links point to Penn's Interfolio records. Treat the Chronicle pages as the date-and-description evidence and verify the live application form before submitting.

Cornell

Cornell adds one faculty-track teaching appointment and one postdoc. The Instructor in Ambulatory and Production Medicine is a one-year clinical-teaching appointment in the College of Veterinary Medicine, renewable annually for up to five years; it expects independent large-animal clinical experience with horses, cattle, and small ruminants. The CPC Rhodes fellowship is a one-year demography postdoc in the Brooks School of Public Policy, with a possible second year and a December 1 review date. 10 11

Deadline triage

Sep 15: Harvard Clinical Psychology. The posting asks for research, teaching/advising, service, and up to three sample publications; letters must arrive before the application is complete.
Sep 30: Harvard Buddhist Studies and World Christianity. Both are full-time Divinity School searches with language and regional-study expectations.
Oct 1: Yale Chemical Biology review begins. The index and dated listing identify an Assistant Professor search at West Campus; the full appointment language remains in the live record.
Nov 1: Penn Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. Eastern, and the fellowship begins July 1, 2027.
Dec 1 and later: Cornell Rhodes review begins Dec 1; Harvard's cancer-biology postdoc gives Dec 31 but says applications are considered immediately. Rolling or early-review positions should be opened before the fixed-date items if the fit is strong.

Coverage note

No qualifying opening with a verifiable August 8–14 posting or update date was confirmed for Princeton, Columbia, or Brown. Dartmouth's Molecular and Systems Biology page is live and describes a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor search, but the official page record shows a July 10, 2026 modification, so it falls outside this week's window. 12

The result is a date-bounded list of openings that were both newly visible in the window and still actionable when checked. Before applying, open the original record, confirm that the portal remains live, and verify any field marked not public—especially Yale's tenure language, deadlines, and appointment terms.