Yale Aids Memorial Project

the yale aids memo­r­ial pro­ject (yamp) is an alumni-led ini­tia­tive to honor and doc­u­ment the lives of hun­dreds of men and women from the uni­ver­sity who per­ished dur­ing the aids epi­demic. yamp will pay homage to the deceased—stu­dents, fac­ulty, and staff—by cre­at­ing pro­files with their biogra­phies and pho­tos, along with sto­ries from their friends and fam­ily. by telling the story of aids through the lens of a sin­gle insti­tu­tion, yamp will make the epi­demic pal­pa­ble for a younger gen­er­a­tion and help to stim­u­late an aids mem­ory boom. in all like­li­hood, more yalies died of aids than died dur­ing world war ii. until now, how­ever, no attempt has been made to memo­ri­al­ize or doc­u­ment yale’s his­tory with the aids epi­demic.