Urie Bronfenbrenner, an internationally renowned psychologist and authority on child development who in the mid-1960s helped found the federal Head Start program, died last Sunday. He was 88.Dr. Br… ...

Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the best-known psychologists alive, has published "Making Human Beings Human: Bioecological Perspectives on Human Development" (Sage Publications 2004) that traces the ...

story Head Start Co-Creator Bronfenbrenner Dies Associated Press Published September 26, 2005 6:01pm EDT | Updated January 13, 2015 7:21pm EST ...

"Urie's favorites were the songs of America - Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Odetta, Stephen Foster, Casey Jones, the Erie Canal - we sang them all." ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- Urie Bronfenbrenner, a Cornell University psychologist who pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the study of child development and helped create the federal Head Start ...

Urie Bronfenbrenner, a co-founder of the federal Head Start program, whose theories profoundly altered the understanding of what children need to develop into successful adults, died Sunday after ...

Urie Bronfenbrenner, a leading scholar in developmental psychology and a founder of the federal Head Start program, died Sept. 25 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 88 and had diabetes. Mr ...

The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University is focused on using research findings to improve health and well-being of people at all stages of life.

Throughout his life, Bronfenbrenner was clearly a very able scholar as well as a warm and respected human being. His first degree was in music and psychology, and it was the latter that attracted him ...

Urie would say, smiling, referring to the 37 different types of flowers he had discovered. He measured a walk's goodness by the scale of flowers - the more he found and studied up close the better ...