Army Anthropologist Dies After Injuries Sustained in Duty in Afghanistan

Science Careers Blog reports on the third social scientist killed in the U.S. Army's controversial Human Terrain Program, who was attacked in November while speaking to villagers in Afghanistan:

Wired's Danger Room blog says [Paula] Loyd was the third social scientist in the Human Terrain program killed in the line of duty, and the second one killed in Afghanistan. Michael Bhatia, a political scientist in the program, was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in May 2008. About 2 months later, Nicole Suveges, an economist working for an Army contractor, died when a bomb destroyed a community building in Sadr City, Baghdad.