An MIT team, along with researchers from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and Kuwait University, was awarded a $4 million grant for a project titled “The Underworlds Project: a Smart Sewage Infrastructure for Kuwait.” The study of real-time epidemiology – conducted by several co-PIs including Profs. Eric Alm, Elfatih Eltahir, and Martin Polz – will combine novel concepts in smart city design and urban informatics with advances in biological engineering and bioinformatics to analyze biomarkers in urban sewage. Read the article.