Department of Mathematics2024-11-0920101073-27802-s2.0-78149453591https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/2629We show that the canonical contact structure on the link of a normal complex singularity is universally tight. As a corollary we show the existence of closed, oriented, atoroidal 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental groups which carry universally tight contact structures that are not deformations of taut (or Reebless) foliations. This answers two questions of Etnyre in [12].pdfMathematicsJournal Article289374600005Q2NOIR00008