Paper recognized as finalist for PNAS Cozzarelli Prize

- ADDED announcement of Ken Ono's 2024 PNAS paper, co-authored with William Craig and Jan-Willem van Ittersum, being recognized as a finalist for the Cozzarelli Prize.
- ADDED details on the paper's selection as a runner-up in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics category and its distinction as the first pure mathematics paper recognized since 2005.

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+Ken Ono's 2024 PNAS paper ["Integer partitions detect the primes"](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409417121) with former UVA student William Craig and collaborator Jan-Willem van Ittersum has been recognized as a finalist for the [Cozzarelli Prize](https://www.nasonline.org/news/2024-cozzarelli-recipients/). The paper was selected as a runner-up in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics category from among 3,200 papers published in PNAS last year. This marks the first time a paper in pure mathematics has been recognized by this prestigious award since 2005.