About 2,000 people attended a Dec. 16 keynote speech honoring the late Urie Bronfenbrenner given by his daughter Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell's director of Labor Education Research in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). The talk, part of the opening session for the 23rd Annual Parent Training Conference in New York City, Dec. 15-19, was delivered at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers.

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a co-founder of the national Head Start program and widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, child rearing and human ecology, an interdisciplinary domain he created. At his death, Bronfenbrenner was the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Psychology at Cornell, where he spent most of his professional career. He died in September 2005 at age 88.

Kate Bronfenbrenner teaches and conducts research in the areas of organizing, collective bargaining, contract administration, labor research and leadership development for national and regional unions as well as students in the resident graduate and undergraduate programs at Cornell ILR.