Professor Yuri Kovchegov has been awarded the Distinguished Visiting Academic (DIVA) Award from the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University in Durham, UK. Professor Kovchegov will use this award to travel to the IPPP Durham in 2024 to collaborate with the colleagues from Oxford University, IPPP, and Birmingham University on constructing a Monte Carlo event generator for the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).