[anu7df]

There may be separate multidisciplinary initiatives, but "Multi" in MURI definitely stands for inter university initiatives. All the MURI grants I have seen (not many and long ago to be honest) were multiple universities and one area of research.

[rsfern]

It’s “multidisciplinary”, but funded programs are almost always large multi-institutional teams https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/295323...