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University of Virginia's own writeup about the ad says Ken Ono "stars in a new Miller64 beer commercial" that "debuts this week in the lead up to Super Bowl Sunday," and adds that the ad was expected to run "not during the actual game." Marketing Dive likewise reported that Ono partnered with Miller64, and specifically noted that Miller64 "does not have the benefit of being able to advertise during the Super Bowl" because of Anheuser-Busch's exclusivity deal. Molson Coors' retrospective then distinguishes the two 2022 campaigns: Miller Lite had the metaverse-themed campaign, while the Ono campaign was "2022: Miller64 answers the world's easiest math question." So the page is wrong both on the brand (Miller Lite vs. Miller64) and on calling it a Super Bowl commercial.

Ken Ono's current official University of Virginia page says: "I am the Founding Mathematician at Axiom Math" and, in the same paragraph, "I am on leave as the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia." It also says under teaching, "I am on leave of absence." That directly contradicts the statement that he "left academia." His 2026 UVA CV likewise lists both positions concurrently: "Axiom Math, Founding Mathematician (12/25-present)" and "U. Virginia, Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics ('22-present)." So the article overstates the move: he joined Axiom Math, but official UVA sources show he remains an academic on leave rather than having left academia outright.

Ken Ono's official UVA CV lists this honor as "2023 Fellow of the Asian American Scholar Forum." His current UVA profile also identifies him as already being a Fellow of the Asian American Scholar Forum. So the fellowship itself is real, but the article gives the wrong year: official university materials place it in 2023, not 2024.