On the first day of 2009, while virtually all of us were sleeping off the previous night's celebrations, Yu toiled away alone in the laboratory, where she works year-round without vacation on preparations for the bioenergy segment of the Executive Yuan's national energy plan.
何以能讓余淑美為它「執迷不悔」、「情有獨鍾」？2009 年的第一天，大家還沈浸在跨年的歡樂氣氛中，中研院分生所實驗室裡空無一人，唯獨余淑美的辦公室亮著燈光，全年無休的她，正為行政院「能源國家型計劃」中的「生質能源」進行規劃，忙得焦頭爛額。