Bonnie has led her students to overcome psychological and environmental difficulties. Most of Sun's research subjects are familiar items, such as bleaching by hydrogen peroxide, identification of fluorescence in dried baby shrimp, the quality evaluation of dehydrated fishery products and the prevention of histamine formation in canned tuna and bonito products.
除此之外，孫寶年克難的本領也令學生非常敬佩。剛回國時，學校的研究器材有限，每次做研究時，她就從既有的器材中選擇可代用者來使用，而仍可獲致有價值的成果。