Scientiae Histoiria RomaeAdrian Van Allen, a multimedia designer and exhibit developer at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, the designer of Ars Synthetica and an upcoming, revamped SynBERC home page, has won the prestigious Rome Prize in design to study and work in Rome. Van Allen’s proposal — Scientiae Historia Romae: An Interactive Map — will be a multi-layered interactive map that lets visitors explore the evolution of the sciences in the city of Rome, from the advances in the time of Pliny the Elder to the current biotechnological wonders of the 21st century. Van Allen and the Exploratorium also received a Webby nomination for Evidence, an interactive website examining how scientists construct a functional understanding of the world through scientific evidence.