Two May graduates, both Honors Laureates in the John V. Roach Honors College, have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State to serve as English teaching assistants for the coming year.

Andrea Edmundson, an English, major, will serve approximately 10 months in Malaysia, beginning January 2012. Paige Miller, a double-major in Spanish and English, began teaching English in Spain in September.

“I am thrilled for this opportunity to travel to Madrid as a Fulbright English teaching assistant,” Miller says. “It is an honor for me to have been selected to represent the United States and TCU. The four years I spent at TCU thoroughly prepared me for Fulbright and whatever else is in store for the future.”

TCU had two Fulbright Scholarships awarded last year as well: Christina Durano ’10, a broadcast journalism major from Albuquerque, N.M., researched media and social change in the Philippines. Kathleen Perley ’10, a speech language pathology major from Houston, taught in Spain.

The Fulbright program, established in 1946 and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is designed to foster understanding between the United States and other countries. The U.S. Student Fulbright program gives recent graduates, graduate students and young professionals the opportunity to conduct research, study or teach in one of the 155 countries in which the program operates.

The Fulbright program is the flagship international education program sponsored by the U.S. government. About 8,000 grants are awarded annually, and about 1,600 of those grants are awarded to U.S. students.