Ken Ono’s 2024 PNAS paper “Integer partitions detect the primes” with former UVA student William Craig and collaborator Jan-Willem van Ittersum has been recognized as a finalist for the Cozzarelli Prize. 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.