Amal George Cheriyan (PhD student, Department of Earth and Space Sciences) has received the Honorable Mention for the Young Astronomer Award for Best Publication from the Astronomical Society of India (ASI). The award was presented by Prof. D. K. Ojha, President of ASI, in recognition of the paper "First Detection of Circular Polarization in Radio Continuum Toward a Massive Protostar", published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL). Co-authored by A. G. Cheriyan, S. Vig, Nirupam Roy, Samir Mandal, C. Carrasco-González, A. Rodríguez-Kamenetzky, and A. Pasetto, the paper reports the first detection of circular polarization in radio continuum emission toward a massive protostar.