DAN SIMMONS
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UW-Madison’s first choices for director of the Carbone Cancer Center and a top-level faculty researcher in the nursing school turned down the jobs in early February because of concerns about declining funding and clout at the university, according to records obtained by the State Journal under the state’s open records law.
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