Ivy League Faculty & Postdoc Openings — May 23, 2026

Two genuinely new postings — Yale tenure-track psychiatry and Princeton plasma-simulation postdoc — came through in the 24 hours ending May 23, 2026, alongside a one-day deadline tightening at Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a $4,000 salary increase at Cornell Society for the Humanities. Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth posted no new faculty or postdoc openings this window. The Harvard Santagata Lab closes May 30 — now 7 days out.

Yale's Department of Psychiatry is part of Yale School of Medicine (founded 1701, endowment ~$41.4 billion as of FY2024), one of the top academic psychiatry programs in the U.S. 1

The hire will co-lead two active NIMH-funded multi-site studies on Clinical High Risk (CHR) adolescents — handling site coordination, recruitment and retention, data quality, financial resources, and NIMH progress reporting — while building an independent early psychosis research program. The role also carries clinical responsibilities: prescribing research and clinical medications for CHR youth. Materials required are a cover letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation submitted through Interfolio. Review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. 1

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, NJ. Its School of Engineering and Applied Science houses several groups working on computational materials science and plasma physics. The Graves Research Group focuses on using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and machine-learning interatomic potentials to model plasma–surface interactions at the atomic scale. 2

The postdoc will develop and apply MLIPs to simulate how plasma processing modifies material surfaces during nanofabrication of quantum and microelectronic devices. Required qualifications: PhD in chemical engineering, physics, chemistry, or materials science; hands-on experience with MD simulation and MLIPs. The position is on-site in Princeton and does not support H-1B visas that require consular processing. Application materials — cover letter, CV with publication list, research statement, and three references — go directly through the HERC portal. 2

The deadline for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology postdoc on wildfire smoke and birds (AJO #32072) has tightened by one day, from June 30 to June 29, 2026 at 23:59:59. 3 All other details remain unchanged: salary $63,480–$68,000 (CALS standard), one-year term renewable up to three years, on-site in Ithaca, NY with hybrid option (3–4 days/week on campus), supervised by Dr. Andrew Stillman and Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot at the Center for Avian Population Studies and the Center for Engagement in Science and Nature. The research uses eBird Status and Trends, Project FeederWatch, and BirdCast data products to quantify how wildfire smoke affects bird populations across North America.

The 2027–28 Society for the Humanities Fellowships (theme: PLAY) at Cornell has been relisted on HigherEdJobs with an annual stipend of $68,000, up from the $64,000 previously recorded. 4 The September 1, 2026 application deadline is unchanged, as is every other field:

Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth had no confirmed new tenure-track or postdoctoral postings in the 24-hour window ending May 23, 2026. Cornell returned no new faculty or postdoc hits — only staff and administrative roles — through AJO, HERC, and HigherEdJobs in this window. 3 Brown and Dartmouth have now gone six consecutive windows without a new tracked listing; HERC and Interfolio searches for both returned no academic positions.

All positions currently monitored, ordered by deadline:

The two Harvard postdocs with near-term deadlines: 5 the Santagata Lab position (May 30) is in the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science, focused on multiplexed imaging, spatial multi-omics, and computational pathology applied to tumor microenvironment characterization. Candidates from physics, applied math, and computational sciences are explicitly welcome alongside those with biology backgrounds. Required materials — CV, Statement of Research, Cover Letter, and three references — go through the Harvard ARIeS portal. The MHFAL position (May 31) 6 covers two open slots in Dr. John Naslund's Mental Health for All Lab at HMS, targeting digital mental health and task-sharing scale-up. Eligible PhD fields include statistics, bioinformatics, implementation science, health economics, social work, sociology, clinical psychology, and epidemiology. Applications go to [email protected].