About two weeks after giving birth, Bridget María Chesterton was curled up on the bathroom floor, saying things that made little sense. Later, in the emergency room, she kept repeating, “What’s going on?” She’d lost touch with reality.

The family eventually learned that Chesterton had postpartum psychosis, a severe mental health disorder thrust into the spotlight by the case of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three children. A key question is whether postpartum psychosis drove Clancy to do it.

LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska Foundation announced $532.8 million in private donations, a first for the foundation, during the fiscal year that ended June 30. 

The first for the foundation comes as the university is asking the state for more money to address a budget shortfall. NU President Jeffrey Gold said it reflects the increasing confidence of those who see the “power” of the university, but he emphasized the university’s “critical partnership” with the state, as it is the university’s largest funding source.