Professor Emeritus Alan Wertheimer penning research papers with President Obama's special health care adviser.

When professor emeritus Alan Wertheimer retired in the spring of 2005 after 37 years in the political science department, the plan was to travel and relax in his new condo on the Burlington waterfront. Co-writing research papers with one of President Barack Obama's top health care advisers, a venture that would place him in the middle of a heated national health care reform debate, wasn't part of the retirement picture .